Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the world of biology. Bird populations in mainland Australia have proved surprisingly resilient against a wide range of ..

The largest bird ever to fly were the Teratorns (a type of Condor), the largest of which, Argentavis magnificens, had a wingspan of 3 metres, and weighed 120kg. The heaviest extinct bird ...

The birds are extinct. Some stories report that dodos were easy to catch and describe herding the birds to the ship for slaughter. Other stories state that no dodo bones were found in the middens6.

This story appears in the September 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. First comes the Noise, the turbulent din of king penguins calling, fighting, courting, like the ultimate schoolyard ...

The rare birds are now safe and in the hands of local ... If you go back just a couple decades to the 1950s, the nenes were nearly extinct. In total, their population had dropped to 50 geese ...

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They shouldn't even be called birds because an aggressive dinosaur with a beak isn't remotely similar to the cute sparrows in ...

At Devon Point Farm, Taylor and his wife, Patty, raise heritage pigs and Devon beef cattle, an ancient breed of hardy cows extinct in their ... call of the aptly named bird: “Bob White ...

Most dinosaurs went extinct. Only birds remained. Over the next 66 million years, birds evolved in many ways, which enabled them to survive in lots of different habitats. Today there are at least ...

A near-extinct breed of bird is booming again according to the latest figures from the RSPB. Bitterns vanished from Britain in the 1870s and, after making a comeback, almost went extinct again in ...

WELLINGTON (AFP): Five extinct species have been included on the ballot to find New Zealand's most popular feathered friend as competition organisers hope to draw attention to endangered birds.