New Zealand's critically endangered flightless parrot, the kakapo, started breeding last week for the first time in four ...

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 ...

AN EXTINCT bird has risen from the dead thanks to a rare evolutionary process, according to new research. The white-throated rail bird can be found in Madagascar and fossils suggest it lived there ...

Looking down the western slope of our home airstrip, one’s first impression is of a lot of very large trees, both bounding the runway and beyond. The second thing you notice is the striking, ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, Australia was still home to enigmatic megafauna—large land animals such as giant marsupial wombats, flightless birds, and short-faced giant kangaroos known as ...

There are 60 species of flightless birds walking the Earth today, but a new study reveals there would be at least four times the amount if not for human influences. These findings were uncovered by a ...

The cassowary is a terror that can disembowel you, but studying fossil eggs suggest humans were hatching them 18,000 years ago. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser ...

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 ...

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 ...

The white-throated rail bird died out and then evolved again AN EXTINCT bird has risen from the dead thanks to a rare evolutionary process, according to new research. The white-throated rail bird can ...