A rare pink pigeon has been hand-reared at a UK zoo for the first time. Pink pigeons, endemic to Mauritius, are on the red ...

There’s millions of invasive snakes on this tiny island, where they were accidentally introduced during World War II. Since ...

The fossilized leg bone of a giant “terror bird” discovered in Colombia provides new insights into ancient South American ...

While past terror bird fossils placed the meat-eating birds at 3 to 9 feet tall, new findings suggest that some were even ...

Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct ...

The Dodo was a flightless bird native to Mauritius and disappeared in the late 17th century, making it one of the most recent ...

Learn about three species facing extinction due to an alarming decline in their populations and the unique reasons for that ...

A 12-million-year-old fossil has revealed what may be the largest known "terror bird" ever found, according to paleontologists.

The bone, described two decades after its discovery, suggests the species might have grown up to 20 percent bigger than other ...

Many factors such as avian malaria, habitat degradation, rats, and food shortages are mainly responsible for the extinction ...

The fossilized leg bone of the terror bird went unidentified for almost 20 years. Nearly 12 million years ago, the largest ...

One of the world's rarest birds may no longer be facing extinction, thanks to creative conservation efforts. One of the ...