The list of animals pushed into extinction has grown even longer. In its latest update, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has officially declared several species extinct, ...

Fossil remains of a large, now-extinct bird species have been discovered in Australia’s Boodjamulla National Park. The ground-dwelling species — Menura tyawanoides — is an ancient ancestor of ...

While many plants and animals are lost to us forever, this little bird has just been very good at hiding. The night parrot ...

Paleontologists have made an "amazing" fossil discovery in Australia that has shed new light on a giant and enigmatic prehistoric goose-like bird. A team from Flinders University in Australia ...

There’s a new champion in the featherweight boxing division. According to a new study, paleontologists have discovered that an extinct flightless bird from Jamaica swung its unusually thick, club-like ...

It's official: the only Australian shrew is no more. The latest edition of the International Union for the Conservation of ...

In 1838, John Gould, the father of Australian ornithology, visited Australia with the intention of gathering material for his great work on Australian birds. In the resulting publication, The Birds of ...

The fossil was discovered in Boodjamulla National Park, officials said. Brian McMahon`via Unsplash Fossil remains of a large, now-extinct bird species have been discovered in Australia’s Boodjamulla ...