With only about 130 left in captivity, siheks are extinct in the wild ... Mongooses released in Hawaii to control rats now ...

The South Island of New Zealand was once home to the extinct Haast's eagle, also called Hieraaetus moorei. Weighing about ...

Guam has 40 times more spiders than neighbouring islands – and a population of invasive snakes so voracious, they have ...

The birds flying highest ... pour in a living flood down the hillsides. They evade killer mice and insomniac ravens, and hurtle for the surf like downy toys on clockwork legs, heeding the call ...

His research shows that as birds evolved, their adult skulls kept features that extinct dinosaurs had only ... we are using to scan fossils would kill you in just a few seconds,” he says.

At the same time, they would kill the Beothuk ... but what if you could bring the bird back? If you could de-extinct it, is that something that you would do? GP: I thought a lot about it, and ...

That owls are familiar Harry Potter icons is just the latest incarnation of a human fascination with owls that predates ...

A cherished icon of the West, the prehistoric-looking California condor remains one ... Village and moving against a proposal to grant the ranch's owners a “license to kill” condors to make ...

One of the images painted on the walls of the Lascaux Cave in France in 15,000 to 10,000 B.C. was a man with the head of a bird, and some prehistoric artists painted ... One 2013 study found that ...

California’s water projects, its unique authority to clean its air, federal support for offshore wind and disaster aid for ...

A study of Gila monster venom helped start the revolution in weight-loss drugs. But scientists think that’s just the ...

Welcome to The A.V. Club’s monthly comics preview, where we recommend new books to check out over the next few weeks. This month, we’ve got five exciting picks, ranging from environmental horror ...