As more and more "historical" checklists are added to the platform, birds we've lost now mingle with those still hanging on.

That sighting marked the first time that the animal had been seen in over 100 years. Campers report unbelievable sighting of ...

A RARE species of bird has been spotted in Herefordshire after a wildlife trust claimed it was thought to be "locally extinct ...

The 68 million-year-old fossil belongs to an extinct species of bird known as Vegavis iaai that lived at the end of the Cretaceous period, when Tyrannosaurus rex dominated North America and just ...

The specimen belongs to a species of extinct bird known as Vegavis iaai, a relative of modern ducks and geese that lived some 69 million years ago—the same time Tyrannosaurus rex was stomping ...

Now, a team of researchers has analyzed a 69-million-year-old fossil belonging to the long-extinct bird Vegavis iaai that could put the discussion to rest. As detailed in a study published ...

A nearly-complete, 69million-year-old fossil of the long-extinct bird named Vegavis iaai supports this theory. It was collected during a 2011 expedition by the Antarctic Peninsula Paleontology ...

A RARE species of bird has been spotted in Herefordshire after a wildlife trust claimed it was thought to be "locally extinct". Last month, Herefordshire Wildlife Trust said a pair of breeding ...

DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

Researchers hope the discovery of a night parrot egg in WA, second only to one found in Queensland, means the once-thought-extinct bird's population is beginning to recover.

(CNN) — A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...