More than 99% of all species that have ever lived are now extinct - and today, many scientists believe we are driving a sixth ...

Flightless birds have had a rough go of it over the past few centuries, with many going extinct — the most iconic being the dodo bird. But not all have perished. Here are four flightless birds that ...

True to their nickname, terror birds (Phorusrhacidae) are known as one of the largest and also the most fearsome birds to ever live. These were flightless birds with ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

One of the unique aspects of our modern era is the ability to preserve sights and sounds. While an animal’s extinction means its physical presence is gone forever, technology allows us to experience a ...

A bird thought to be extinct for 140 years has been rediscovered in the forests of Papua New Guinea. The black-naped pheasant-pigeon was documented by scientists for the first and last time in 1882, ...

Chen thought that the remains looked more like an avian species, so he looped in Lida Xing, a paleontologist at China University of Geosciences who specializes in Cretaceous birds. The preserved toe ...

“For decades,” explained Worthy, “the extinction of New Zealand’s birds was viewed primarily through the lens of human arrival 750 years ago. This study proves that natural forces like super-volcanoes ...

Everyone knows what a bird is – and pretty much everyone knows what a dinosaur is. But not everyone is aware that birds evolved from dinosaurs approximately 160 million years ago. In fact, birds and ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Science has a fairly bland name for the ...