A team of environmental scientists at the University of Sydney, working with a pair of colleagues from the University of ...

The endangered orange-bellied parrot has lost 62 per cent of its genetic diversity and can only be saved by breeding with ...

In the last ten years, at least 15 species have officially checked out, never to be seen again. It's ironic to think how ...

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 ...

Rio Tinto has redrawn its plans for Australia’s next big copper-gold mine after the shock discovery of one of the world’s ...

The night parrot, presumed extinct, has been sighted in Australia after decades. Conservationists are ecstatic as Indigenous rangers uncover new data about the bird’s habits, fostering hopes for ...

As for the dodo, the Nicobar Pigeon is the closest living relative, and the Solitaire, a type of extinct bird that was found ...

The study was part of a broader initiative to discover the causes of bird extinction in the Caribbean over the last several thousand years. An estimated 12% of all Caribbean birds have gone ...

Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless ...

A RARELY-seen bird has been spotted at a Herefordshire gravel pit. The green-winged teal sighting was reported in February at ...