The specimen might be our greatest opportunity to unlock the mysteries surrounding how the bird behaved, how it lived, how it ...

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

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

Tens of thousands of years ago, Australia was still home to enigmatic megafauna—large land animals such as giant marsupial ...

While many plants and animals are lost to us forever, this little bird has just been very good at hiding. The night parrot ...

“The extinction of the slender-billed curlew is a tragic and sobering moment for migratory bird conservation," said Amy ...

The latest IUCN assessment of the species notes that historically the slender-billed curlew was likely locally common, but ...

This prehistoric predator dominated the ancient landscape with its massive frame and bone-crushing bite and will offer guests ...

The last known photo of the slender-billed curlew, a grayish-brown migratory waterbird, was taken in February 1995 at Merja ...

Powerful gusts shook an observation post perched on a hill at a wind farm in South Africa as two monitors scanned the ...

The world’s rarest parrot, declared extinct in the wild, has hatched at a zoo. The Spix’s macaw – famous as the character Blu ...

A 56 million-year-old fossil bone helps explain how this (mostly) flightless family of birds spread to so many different ...