Fiona Pardington hopes an exhibition of her images of New Zealand’s extinct and endangered birds will encourage debate, as the nation weighs its environmental responsibilities.

The word "dodo" is synonymous with extinct animals. In fact, if you asked people to name an extinct animal who wasn't a dinosaur or woolly mammoth, dodo bird would probably be the most popular ...

Traditional Irish names are in sharp decline and are on the verge of disappearing ...

Two species of marsupials thought to have been extinct for the past 6,000 years have been found very much alive on the island of New Guinea.

Moving populations from one place to another is a conservation strategy called translocation. The new green and golden bell ...

It's a sure sign of spring: the first peregrine falcon egg of the 2026 season has been laid at a We Energies nest box. We ...

Scientists have rediscovered two marsupial species in New Guinea that were believed to have gone extinct 6,000 years ago. The finding highlights the hidden biodiversity of remote rainforests.

Brooklyn's East River just got a visitor that's been nearly extinct for over a century. Meet him.

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More than 50 years ago, the ariel toucan was reintroduced to Tijuca National Park, the world’s largest urban forest, located ...

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The iNaturalist cellphone app not only helps users identify plant, animal and insect species; it also provides invaluable data to scientists studying biodiversity, species decline, and habitat loss.