Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the world of biology. Bird populations in mainland Australia have proved surprisingly resilient against a wide range of ..

Disney's "The Lion King" is amid a five-week stint at the Orpheum ... The actor must control the bird with both hands. One hand holds a trigger mechanism that controls Zazu's eyelids and beak ...

Bachman’s warbler is one of 21 species declared extinct last year – but scientists are still discovering its secrets. For more than 100 years, a tiny yellow and black bird has lain on its back ...

The birds are extinct. Some stories report that dodos were easy to catch and describe herding the birds to the ship for slaughter. Other stories state that no dodo bones were found in the middens6.

The rare birds are now safe and in the hands of local ... If you go back just a couple decades to the 1950s, the nenes were nearly extinct. In total, their population had dropped to 50 geese ...

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At Devon Point Farm, Taylor and his wife, Patty, raise heritage pigs and Devon beef cattle, an ancient breed of hardy cows extinct in their ... call of the aptly named bird: “Bob White ...

A near-extinct breed of bird is booming again according to the latest figures from the RSPB. Bitterns vanished from Britain in the 1870s and, after making a comeback, almost went extinct again in ...

They almost went extinct in the 1800s after decades ... have been stable since the early 2000s. The king penguin is an ...

WELLINGTON (AFP): Five extinct species have been included on the ballot to find New Zealand's most popular feathered friend as competition organisers hope to draw attention to endangered birds.

They found that there is no evidence for hybrid ancestry – and in fact, the extinct bird was "highly divergent" compared to its relatives. The Bachman's warbler's genome is very clearly distinct ...