Islands are widely recognized as natural laboratories of evolution. The ocean restricts movement among islands, allowing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aside from being a delight to watch, flight in birds is regarded by many cultures as a symbol of freedom, and a source of ...

A bird that had previously gone extinct came back to life thanks to a rare evolutionary process known as "iterative evolution." The white-throated rail bird can presently be found on the island of ...

The white-throated rail bird can be found in Madagascar and fossils suggest it lived there tens of thousand of years ago, died out and then evolved again. Researchers from the University of Portsmouth ...

There would be at least four times as many flightless bird species on Earth today if it were not for human influences, finds a study led by UCL researchers.The study, published in Science Advances, ...

Researchers have found New Zealand's endangered flightless birds are seeking refuge in the locations where six species of moa last lived before going extinct. Researchers have found New Zealand's ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Of the world’s 5700-odd living species of ...

Watching an ostrich sprint across the plain like a mean two-legged dust mop, you might think a mistake has been made. Surely this isn't one of evolution's prouder moments? But new genetic evidence ...

Tinamous are the closest living relatives of the flightless ratites. Brian Gratwicke/Flickr, CC BY Ratites – a group of flightless birds including the emu, ostrich and extinct moa – were long believed ...

May 9 (UPI) --Evolution produced the same flightless bird species twice, with each occurrence separated by tens of thousands of years. The phenomena, called iterative evolution, helped bring the ...