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 ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The Sihek bird, an endangered animal who recently returned to the wild, has laid eggs on their new home at Palmyra Atoll, an island in the Pacific. The eggs laid mark the first wild ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bird once declared extinct in the wild has just laid eggs in Hawaii. The sihek, also known as the Guam kingfisher, has a ...

Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...

Of all the recently extinct animals, none seems to excite the imagination quite like the dodo-a fact Mark Carnall has experienced firsthand. As one of two Life Collections Managers at the UK's Oxford ...

Looking to inform the conservation of critically endangered bird species, University of Utah biologists completed an analysis identifying traits that correlate with all 216 bird extinctions since 1500 ...