(Paul Banko) A native of Hawai’i, Lewis will talk about extinct and endangered birds of Hawai’i, evolution, survival, ...

May 28, 2024 — Using ancient DNA extracted from the toe bone of a museum specimen, biologists have sequenced the genome of an extinct, flightless bird called the little bush moa, shedding light ...

The closest relatives to today’s kiwi are the extinct elephant birds from Madagascar. They are also related to emus and cassowaries of Australia, and the extinct moa of New Zealand. Kiwi can live for ...

Birds were abundant, and included the now extinct moa and koreke / quail, as well as weka, kererū, kākā, kiwi in the forest, and a variety of waterfowl and freshwater fish in the streams. Māori used ...

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over ...

Recently I looked into a number of extinct birds from all around the world, but few of them shed light on those that I would've lived alongside. Today we're "borrowing" my mom's field guide on the ...

Interestingly, this fossil fills a 70-million-year-long gap in our knowledge between the early bird-like dinosaurs ...

A four-decade quest to bring the quagga back is being heralded as a success, but not everyone is impressed ...

Scientists and conservationists here say they’ve brought a zebralike mammal back from the dead, giving the quagga a major win over the more-famous Woolly mammoth and Dodo bird in the global race ...

Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.