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

Credit: pexels Fossil records show turtles not only survived the K–Pg extinction but actually expanded in diversity afterward. Their aquatic habits gave them shelter when land ecosystems collapsed, ...

Oh, to be human... Our brains are locked in fragile bone prisons, we've got bad eyesight, and we complain when we have a ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

Maryland became the first state to designate an official shark on April 14, 2026, naming the extinct Otodus megalodon whose ...

The re-examination of an Ice Age fossil that has spent the last 120 years in the bowels of a museum has filled a major ...

Evolution usually helps a species survive. But sometimes, a trait that once made perfect sense ends up causing real trouble. Some animals adapted so well to their original environments that when ...

These “total monsters of fishes” are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest living relatives: the big-eyed ratfish of the deep sea Strange fossils ...

Introducing large herbivores in Panama’s forests could fill the gap left by extinct species, new research suggests. University of Exeter scientists studied lake sediments that contain traces of ...