A bird that has been extinct in the wild for nearly 40 years was born at Pittsburgh's National Aviary.

Have you heard the heartbreaking story of the last passenger pigeon to ever live? Flocks of this pigeon species were once so ...

The crested ibis conservation effort has been underway for decades. This bird species went extinct on Japan's Honshu island ...

The bird, Plumadraco bankoorum, was a member of the enantiornithines, the most diverse group of birds during the Cretaceous ...

Muhumuza helped make shoebills famous last November, when he shared what became viral footage of a massive shoebill that had ...

Step into a world where the past coalesces with the present—birds of today are living ties to the age of dinosaurs. With ...

The bird is of cultural significance to the Māori people of New Zealand, and its numbers are starting to increase again.

For years, scientists guessed that a larger predatory animal must have hunted these ancient birds, but they never found ...

A 121-million-year-old fossil from China shows that extreme feather displays are not a modern bird invention. Plumadraco ...

Eight crested ibises were released into the wild in a Japanese town decades after the birds went extinct in the country.

A fossil bed in northwestern China is littered with the remains of hundreds of prehistoric birds—including some whose broken bones were crushed into pellets, similar to those coughed up by modern owls ...

The crested ibis, once known for its beautiful plumage, looks like a creature out of a storybook. And it would have been, if ...