Fiona Pardington hopes an exhibition of her images of New Zealand’s extinct and endangered birds will encourage debate, as ...

Merlin could disappear in worst-case scenario, with British isles facing ecological ‘point of no return’ ...

This episode is brought to you by the Music for Scientists album! From birds with no wings to giant fowl that were once ...

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 ...

The dodo bird vanished more than 300 years ago, but its story still sparks curiosity. Native to just one island and wiped out in just a few decades, the dodo has become a symbol of extinction and ...

The ivory-billed woodpecker, along with 22 other species of birds, fish, mussels and other wildlife, is set to be declared extinct and removed from the endangered species list, US wildlife officials ...

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 ...

Protections for the western burrowing owl in the Las Vegas Valley will remain after the Clark County Commission last week ...

Scientists say it takes 250 years, some termites, no wildfires, and a cyclone to make the ideal home for the palm cockatoo ...

People are being asked to keep their distance at one of the island's coastal beauty spots, to protect endangered birds ...