From the bare-necked umbrellabird to the helmeted hornbill, birds come in all sorts of weird and wonderful shapes and sizes. But hundreds of species could go extinct in the next 100 years, researchers ...

Madagascar is home to some of the world’s most unique flora and fauna. And, up until about a thousand years ago, it was home to the world’s largest known bird species. Meet Madagascar’s legendary ...

Climate change and habitat loss are poised to drive over 500 bird species to extinction within the next century, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Reading. Published ...

In the race to save birdlife around the world, time is running out—and doing everything right still won’t be enough. Despite global conservation goals and urgent policies aimed at protecting nature, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There’s an important concept in evolutionary biology called ...

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 ...

Colossal Biosciences has announced a partnership to resurrect giant flightless birds called moa. But the company's recent dire wolf project was controversial, and moa are an even more ambitious target ...

A Texas-based company with backing from Lord of the Rings film-maker Sir Peter Jackson is trying to bring a giant bird back from extinction. Colossal Biosciences has announced an effort to genetically ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Filmmaker Peter Jackson, left, and Colossal CEO Ben Lamm hold up bones from Jackson's collection of extinct moa bones in ...

More than 500 bird species face extinction within 100 years, warns new research Climate change and habitat loss could cause dozens of breeds to disappear forever within the next century, according to ...