The Guam kingfisher was deemed extinct in the wild in 1988. Twenty-nine of them were rescued and taken to zoos across the ...

Two locally extinct mammal species have been reintroduced to a national park in the Australian state of New South Wales NSW Scientists on Tuesday r ...

The caracal is a small, solitary, wildcat with reddish-tan fur, a white chin and underbelly and giant, black tufted ears. In ...

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With no natural predators, the snakes proliferated, gobbling up the island’s small animals. Already, the snake has driven ...

Big animals are exciting. The largest animal on Earth today is the blue whale which can reach 98 feet long – enormous (and ...

But in 2013, just one year after the wetland was restored, 120 species of birds were recorded in the area – including ... which they work with local hunters to trap and kill. The idea of restoring or ...

In the vast plains of ancient South America, millions of years ago, a menacing shadow loomed over the grasslands. It wasn't a ...

Some roughly 120-million-year-old seeds are telling a new story about what the Earth’s first birds ate ... The remains belong to the now extinct Longipteryx chaoyangensis.

Paleontologists say the birds were eating fruits, despite a long-standing hypothesis that they feasted on fish or insects.

Dr. O'Connor says that Longipteryx is part of a larger group of prehistoric birds called the enantiornithines, and the new discovery marks the first time that scientists have found any stomach ...