South Island takahe—a prehistoric-looking flightless bird endemic to New Zealand's rugged landscapes—have become a shining ...

The dodo had downy grey feathers with a white tail plume. The backside of the dodo was believed to have a tuft of lightly coloured feathers ...

In the middle of the 18th Century, at around the time the US was signing the declaration of independence, a large flightless bird quietly became extinct on an island in the Indian Ocean.

It’s already baffling how many incredible and strange creatures can be found on planet Earth, with there being well over 8 ...

which is another species of extinct flightless bird. So, the dodo won’t be an exact clone but rather a species with edited ...

A very large collection of moas from New Zealand, including several type specimens and the original fragment of long bone that allowed Richard Owen to deduce the existence of these large extinct ...

The proportion of 216 bird species globally extinct or likely lost since 1500 that were endemic to a region, found solely on islands, and were either flightless or partially flightless ...

Owen examined it but was sceptical about its being the bone of a bird, but on further examination he was convinced that it was indeed part of the skeleton of a large extinct flightless bird.

“The first bird extinction subsequent to European colonization was the loss of the flightless white gallinule ... bird that is on the verge of becoming extinct. ... [+] Fortunately, its range ...

and 20% were completely or partially flightless. Finally, species with big bodies were overly represented on the extinct list. "Heavier birds have been more likely to be targeted for hunting ...

Papier mache artisans in Srinagar revive extinct dodos, exporting thousands to Europe and Mauritius for Christmas.