Two male Rodrigues solitaires fight over a female in the background using club-like wings The extinct Dodo had a little-known relative on another island. This fascinating bird ultimately suffered ...

The solitaire is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Rodrigues.Credit...Historic Illustrations/Alamy Genetic testing suggests that around 25 million years ago the two ...

It’s been 35 years since this “cerulean blue and cinnamon” colored bird has flown free in the wild. The Guam kingfisher was deemed extinct in ... Palmyra Atoll, an island in the Pacific ...

there have been eight documented bird extinctions in island regions of Australia (not counting Tasmania). “The first bird extinction subsequent to European colonization was the loss of the ...

In tribute to extinct birds from the Dodo to the latest Honeycreeper, San Juan Island artist David Halpern has created an ...

Thomas Manglona KUAM A bird species that was previously extinct in the wild has been released ... traveled from Wichita to "temporary aviaries" at Cooper Island on Aug. 28 where they were able ...

As climate change and other threats destroy the habitats of living things, biologists are beginning to think of doing the once unthinkable: finding new homes for species outside their native ranges.

It's believed that, as resources began to dwindle on the island, starvation and warfare nearly caused the population to go extinct. On Easter Sunday in 1772, Dutch explorers landed on the island ...

Photo by the Zoological Society of London It’s been 35 years since this “cerulean blue and cinnamon” colored bird has flown free in the wild. The Guam kingfisher was deemed extinct in the ...