Rare attacks helped brand the cassowary as deadly, but habitat loss and human activity now pose a far greater threat to the ...

In the forests of the Sierra Nevada, the black-backed woodpecker is without parallel. The bird appears almost born of fire, ...

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A remarkable fossil discovery in Colombia's Tatacoa Desert has unveiled a new species of terror bird, significantly larger than its known counterparts, offering fresh ...

Terror birds, or Phorusrhacidae, were an apex predator during the Cenozoic era. With powerful legs built for speed, these massive, flightless birds dominated the land ...

The last known photo of the slender-billed curlew, a grayish-brown migratory waterbird, was taken in February 1995 at Merja Zerga, on Morocco’s Atlantic coast. There will likely never be another one.

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 ...

The slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) has been officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). This is the first-ever recorded global bird ...

Twelve million years ago, a huge flightless predator known as a “terror bird” sprinted across tropical floodplains in what is now central Colombia. Archaeologists ...

Melting sea ice and deforestation are continuing to drive many species toward extinction, with the latest Red List of Threatened Species showing that more than a quarter of all animals, plants and ...