The dodo was a flightless bird that lived on the island nation of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. It is a case study of ...

The Tasmanian tiger, a marsupial apex predator, went extinct almost a century ago, but scientists are now closer than ever to bringing it back through genome sequencing—much like the fictional revival ...

As I stood on my deck watching the autumn leaves floating about like errant monarch butterflies, I could hear the distant ...

The one local bright spot in the battle of man vs. bird is the fate of the wild turkey, once nominated by Ben Franklin to be America’s symbol (rather than the bald eagle). Initially shy and easily ...

A well-preserved thylacine head was a gruesome sight — but it also contained RNA molecules crucial to reconstructing the ...