As more and more "historical" checklists are added to the platform, birds we've lost now mingle with those still hanging on.

A once-thought extinct native bird is now beating the odds, with a further release of 18 birds into the Rees Valley near ...

This finding has shed new light on the evolutionary past of birds and revealed critical information about their survival and ...

The specimen belongs to a species of extinct bird known as Vegavis iaai, a relative of modern ducks and geese that lived some 69 million years ago—the same time Tyrannosaurus rex was stomping ...

Estimated to be 68 million years old, the fossil belongs to Vegavis iaai, an extinct bird species that lived during the late Cretaceous period. This was the era when Tyrannosaurus rex roamed North ...

"Few birds are as likely to start as many arguments among paleontologists as 'vegavis,'" said professor Christopher Torres.

The fossil, a nearly complete, 69-million-year-old skull, belongs to an extinct bird named Vegavis iaai and was collected during a 2011 expedition by the Antarctic Peninsula Palaeontology Project.

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Conservationists are making a Valentine’s Day plea to protect African penguins that can mate for life. The birds, which are ...

With a history going back millions of years, the monogamous bird, often referred to as the ‘master of reforestation’ is now ...

Colossal is a firm focused on bioscience and the de-extinction of species like the woolly mammoth and dodo bird.