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

The northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita) is an extravagant waterbird adapted to forage in dry, open habitats, and is ...

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

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

They show the gritty side of dinosaur life,” Lacovara said. “Dinosaurs were authentic beings that lived under their own ...

Described by the British Trust for Ornithology as a "rare vagrant", green winged teal are visitors from north America, with most records of the birds in the UK from autumn and winter. The trust said ...

The peanut-sized mollusks' comeback is credited to a decades-long conservation program led by the Zoological Society of ...

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

Some animals don’t get a second chance—but a few managed to claw their way back from the edge. These are species that faced real threats—habitat loss, hunting, pollution, disease—and for a while, it ...

Atlantic Puffins were once almost extinct from Maine’s coast, their only native habitat in the United States. But after the ...

Science is taking a major step forward by exploring the possibility of bringing extinct species back to life. Iconic animals like the woolly mammoth, the dodo, and the Tasmanian tiger could ...