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, ...

The night parrot is a beautiful green and yellow bird native to Australia. These birds are nocturnal, nesting on the ground and favoring desert environments. The night parrot is extremely lightweight ...

While the ivory-billed woodpecker has attracted a lot of attention in the 21st century due to reported sightings, it was not been the only Arkansas-dwelling bird that went extinct during the 20th ...

A biotech startup is taking the first real steps towards bringing the dodo bird back from extinction. No one has seen this bird since the late 17th century, but that doesn't mean it has been forgotten ...

Proving that nature will always surprise and delight us, researchers have just identified a remarkable extinct shelduck from New Zealand’s remote Chatham Islands that evolved to spend more time ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Science has a fairly bland name for the ...