The endangered kakapo is a flightless bird native to New Zealand. Its population is growing, but its parasites have dwindled.

A new gecko species, Paragehyra tsaranoro, has been discovered in Madagascar's Tsaranoro valley. As a microendemic species, ...

A tiny, overlooked wrist bone called the pisiform may have played a pivotal role in bird flight and it turns out it evolved far earlier than scientists thought. Fossils from bird-like dinosaurs in ...

Trees are invading the open, grassy habitat of the endangered golden-shouldered parrot – giving predators cover to lie in ...

Researchers in South Africa have rediscovered a lost lizard, uncovered new localities of species and found that some are in ...

Six blue-and-yellow macaws are gracing the skies of São Simão, in Brazil’s southeastern São Paulo state, after more than five ...

Birds are some of the most interesting animals in the world, whether they are stunning us with colorful plumage or ...

A company that claims to have resurrected the dire wolf has unveiled plans to bring back the moa, a long-extinct bird that ...

The dogged search for a bird that many people figured had gone extinct included torrential rains, washed-out bridges, swine ...

B ack in 2018, a bumper crop of new spider assassins was discovered in Madagascar. They represented four new species in the genus Madagascarchaea, as well as 14 new species in the genus Eriauchenius, ...

Lemurs that survive only in Madagascar, snakes that hunt with and solitary Indian rhinos. These are just some of the rare ...

You know him as the mastermind behind the epic films about hobbits and orcs, but now Peter Jackson is taking on a project ...