Declared extinct in the wild decades ago, a newborn Spix’s macaw hatchling at a European zoo is offering the species fresh hope. The Spix’s macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii) is a brilliantly blue parrot once ...

The elusive bird is classified as a former breeding species in Britain, earning it superstar status on the rare occasion it's ...

Once common across Europe, North Africa and West Asia, the slender-billed curlew has not been officially sighted since 1995, ...

Our planet has seen many different species of bird come and go. Some of these birds were magnificent, some were very large ...

You might think that bringing an animal back from extinction is a pipe dream, but one company is getting closer to bringing ...

The slender-billed curlew ( Numenius tenuirostris) has been officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Cincinnati took custody of a great auk in 1974. A new DNA test proves it's one of the last survivors of the seabird species.

Nebraska has confirmed its first case of bird flu in a dairy cattle herd as a lingering 18-month outbreak continues to afflict livestock nationwide, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on ...

THE International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has declared the slender-billed curlew extinct. The announcement on Oct. 10 marked the end of decades of searches for rediscovery and the ...

We thought hippos went extinct in Central Europe around 115,000 years ago, but new fossil finds tell a different story.

It's official: the only Australian shrew is no more. The latest edition of the International Union for the Conservation of ...