In the race to save birdlife around the world, time is running out—and doing everything right still won’t be enough. Despite global conservation goals and urgent policies aimed at protecting nature, ...

The regent honeyeater is a beautiful bird at risk of extinction. So how can we protect it from native predators, such as ...

Imagine the possibility of resurrecting a species long thought to be permanently erased from our planet. A massive, flightless bird that vanished from New Zealand around 600 years ago might soon take ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

A Texas-based company with backing from Lord of the Rings film-maker Sir Peter Jackson is trying to bring a giant bird back from extinction. Colossal Biosciences has announced an effort to genetically ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Climate change and habitat loss could cause more than 500 bird species to go extinct in the next 100 years, researchers from the University of Reading have found. Their study, published today (Tuesday ...

From brightly colored birds to the much-loved sugar glider, Australia's native animals are a sight to behold. The island ...