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

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

In the arid shale beds of western India, scientists have uncovered a remarkable fossil that tells the story of a prehistoric ...

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

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

I was making a joke and in my head I said, ‘I smell a threadsnake,'” Justin Springer, Caribbean program officer for the NGO ...

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 ...

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

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

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