The Dodo, a once-extinct bird could return by 2028, thanks to DNA from a museum specimen, a surrogate chicken, and bold new ...

(Image Credit: Oscar Sanisidro) On both page and screen, we’re used to seeing dinosaurs and prehistoric birds as vibrant creatures exhibiting unique and diverse patterns in color and texture. But what ...

Mar. 20, 2025 — Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple appendages known as proto-feathers, which were present in certain dinosaurs.By ...

It’s the events leading up to this final obliteration on Eldey that Tim Birkhead deals with in the first half of The Great Auk, a book that’s both a homage to the extinct bird and an account ...

Despite what you might assume, given the huge number of fossils uncovered in recent years, finding remains of prehistoric creatures ... A newly-discovered juvenile bird specimen found in Spain ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Miners in Southeast Asia discovered a well-preserved wing of an extinct bird species. The discovery reveals similarities between ancient and modern birds.

It was in 1995 that Zhou and colleagues announced the discovery of a fossil from this prehistoric disaster zone that heralded a new age of paleontology. The fossil was a primitive bird the size of ...

“Not only did Wisconsin host the largest recorded nesting of passenger pigeons in 1871, but the Wisconsin Society of Ornithology also created a monument to the extinct bird at Wyalusing State Park.” ...