While that fashion trend thankfully came to an end, kagus have continued to face threats, with predation by dogs and other introduced animals, as well as habitat loss, all causing numbers to decline.

The company that claims to have "resurrected" the dire wolf has its sights set on the woolly mammoth, dodo bird and Tasmanian ...

For years, TikTok users have shared dozens of videos claiming that the U.S. "got caught hiding the last dodo bird." Some of these videos made the specific claim that a man discove ...

The US government is considering bird flu vaccines to prevent the mass culling of infected chickens, which has driven egg prices to nearly $6 per dozen. Three geese found dead at Heartland of ...

(Dominique Faget/AFP via Getty Images) Bird flu is at a dangerous point in the United States: Nearly 167 million birds have been impacted by the H5N1 strain since 2022, and 70 people have been ...

Mauritius has become the world’s leading exporter of research primates, pitting conservationists, politicians, and neighbors against one another Mauritius—Nestled here at the foot of two of the ...

Pitch determines how high or low a sound is — for example, the chirp of a bird versus the growl of a dog. Harmonic structure defines tonal quality, distinguishing a piano note from a frog’s croak.

A new study offers a piece of the puzzle by peeking into the parakeet brain, and finds remarkable similarities to the human neural region that controls speech. The research, published March 19 ...

Bird flu has ripped through the animal kingdom for the past few years now, killing countless birds and crossing into an alarming number of mammals. Yet people remain largely untouched. Even though ...

For the first time, scientists at New York University's Grossman School of Medicine recorded brain activity in parakeets as the birds made sounds. The researchers' findings were published in the ...