After 128 years of exploration and fossil excavation, researchers have finally unearthed the skull of Genyornis newtoni.

One of the unique aspects of our modern era is the ability to preserve sights and sounds. While an animal’s extinction means ...

Parrots are among the most vibrant and loquacious birds in the world — and are typically found in equatorial habitats. Here ...

For centuries, the dodo has stood as a symbol of the delicacy of nature and how easily diversity can be lost, but what if the ...

A new artificial insemination method helps rare Kākāpō parrots breed again, offering hope amid global bird decline.

Nearly one-third of parrot species are threatened with extinction, and a new study concludes that current protected areas are not sufficient to protect parrot diversity, overlapping with only 10% ...

Habitat destruction by logging and agriculture is pushing parrot species towards extinction, while current protected areas are failing to mitigate these effects, according to new research.

Bird species that have lost the ability to fly through evolution have become extinct more often than birds that have retained their ability to fly, according to new research. Bird species that ...

Hoping to shed new light on the issue, a team of researchers sequenced the Carolina parakeet’s genome—and found that human causes were likely the sole driver of the bird’s abrupt extinction.

Now a group of international researchers has sequenced the Carolina parakeet genome and concluded that the bird’s rapid decline shows human interference drove their extinction, according to a ...

Thanks to our best efforts to completely remake the world according to our standards, eight more species of birds are probably extinct, including three species of parrots, according to a new study ...