The mystery of the sounds made by colossal extinct reptiles takes a new turn following the discovery of a fossilized larynx ...

From 9-foot tall ostriches to albatrosses with gargantuan wingspans, here are some of the biggest birds in the world.

For the next three months, a lucky few will be rewarded with an extremely rare sight in two Australian states. One of the world’s most threatened birds has migrated from Tasmania to Victoria and South ...

More than 35 species of falcons roam the Earth’s skies at present. But there used to be at least three others. Here’s the story of the confirmed falcon species lost to the world forever.

In a significant discovery that reveals New Zealand’s epic biodiversity, researchers identified a 19-million-year-old ...

For many New Zealanders, the Australian magpie is a familiar, if sometimes vexing, sight. Introduced from Australia in the ...

Magpies may be considered Aussie immigrants, but new research reveals that their relatives lived in Aotearoa New Zealand 19 ...

But the extinct parrot, dubbed Heracles inexpectatus, crushes the kakapo’s record: Described from two fossilized leg bones, the bird would have weighed 15 pounds and stood roughly three feet tall.

The dodo, the flightless bird that went extinct in the year 1662, is yet one of the most prominent beings in heaven's list of extinctions. Genetic scientists are now working on resurrecting the ...

Vickers-Rich and Archbold believe that settlers saw the Dromornithidae, a now-extinct prehistoric bird that was dubbed the “Demon Duck” by modern paleontologists. In 2017, scientist Karl Brandt again ...

An artistic rendering of Genyornis newtoni – credit Jacob C. Blokland The first complete skull ever found of a gargantuan flightless bird that lived 100,000 years ago in Australia is helping ...

The giant bird species, also known as mihirungs, became extinct around 45,000 years ago. Humans discovered the species when they found the bird's skull for the first time in 1913.