After the Dutch settled its home, the island of Mauritius, in the 17th century, it took less then three decades for the bird, which laid only one egg a year, to go extinct. The odd, flightless ...

The company said it hopes to use what it's learned to keep the red "ghost" wolf from going ... bird and bringing it back to its home island. Meanwhile, the thylacine, or "Tasmanian tiger," went ...

The View' star Whoopi Goldberg would very much like the dodo bird to remain extinct after scientists resurrected the dire ...

It’s the events leading up to this final obliteration on Eldey that Tim Birkhead deals with in the first half of The Great Auk, a book that’s both a homage to the extinct bird and an account ...

Among the bird species in Hawaii declared extinct include the Kauai akialoa ... once, but nobody can go do that anymore,” he said on Thursday night. “They have to go to Bishop Museums and ...

Several decades earlier, the idea of passenger pigeons going extinct was almost unimaginable. People living in North America in the first half of the nineteenth century would have been familiar with ...

The feat moved the species from a "critically endangered" classification to "endangered" and, Fritz says, is the first attempt to reintroduce a continentally extinct migratory bird species.

Silent Skies” — an exhibition of paintings and drawings of critically endangered and extinct birds — is on display at the Pacific Beach/Taylor Library through Friday ...

Hundreds of bird enthusiasts will take to the Irish countryside over the next two months to count all the birds they can see ...