I looked into a number of extinct birds from all around the world, but few of them shed light on those that I would've lived alongside. Today we're "borrowing" my mom's field guide on the Birds of ...

Flightless birds have had a rough go of it over the past few centuries, with many going extinct — the most iconic being the ...

There are over 200 species of shorebirds in the world. The largest of all shorebirds are curlews of which there are nine ...

We’re all used to seeing birds like pigeons on city roads, parrots that talk, or eagles flying high in the sky. But the bird ...

The state of the planet is often told in soundbites. A species saved (or extinct) here; a forest burned there. Some glacier ...

An asteroid at the end of the Cretaceous Period ended the dinosaurs, but earlier smaller extinctions dramatically set the ...