Conservationists are racing to save the manumea, a chicken-sized bird that lives only on two Samoan islands, from extinction ...

The dodo's closest living relative, the Samoan manumea, was spotted alive in the wild, after being missing for years.

As a critically endangered species, the manumea could be considered mostly dead, but there’s a big difference between that ...

Centuries ago, Mauritius held a world unlike anything sailors expected to find. The island sat far from major travel routes, and its wildlife evolved without outside pressure. The dodo lived at the ...

The Amazon rainforest has yielded yet another new species, according to a recent study published in Zootaxa. Discovered in the mountains of the Serra do Divisor National Park (SDNP) in Brazil, this ...