No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

Where dis the Dodo live and what's it's environment like ? When Dutch sailors first explored the Indian Ocean, they ...

Now that a "de-extinction" company says it has revived the dire wolf species that was extinct for over 10,000 years, could dinosaurs and the woolly mammoth be next? What about the dodo bird? Colossal ...

A long-lost prehistoric bird species makes a triumphant comeback in its native land after being considered extinct.

Scientists can learn a lot about extinct animals by studying their footprints, bones and even teeth. But, while insightful, these artifacts don’t always paint a complete picture of an ancient creature ...

The now extinct moa roamed New Zealand 500 years ago - Colossal Biosciences/AP Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson plans to spend millions on resurrecting a giant flightless bird that was hunted ...

A species of huge, flightless bird that once inhabited New Zealand disappeared around 600 years ago, shortly after human settlers first arrived on the country’s two main islands. Now, a Texas-based ...

Analysis of 216 extinct species by biologists found birds endemic to islands, occupied ecologically specific niche, lacking flight, with large bodies and sharply angled wings were the ones likely to ...

Learn about extinct bird species of North America, including passenger pigeons, seaside sparrows, the ivory-billed woodpecker ...