With the new changes, the overall number of “lost” birds, as defined in a 2022 study, dropped to 120 from the 163 listed when ...

It started with a set of photographs, taken of an animal captured in 2015 on the Bird’s Head Peninsula in Indonesian Papua, ...

On the final day of the Cretaceous period, some 66 million years ago, Earth was teeming with a dazzling variety of dinosaurs.

Removed from the US Endangered Species Act list in 2007, their population in the lower 48 states has soared from a low of 417 nesting pairs in 1963 to an estimated 71,400 or more nesting pairs by 2020 ...

With evidence that the giant river otter is in an increasingly perilous state, delegates to the United Nations Convention on ...

Five bird species that hadn’t been seen, heard or genetically detected in over a decade were documented by researchers and ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature has updated the Red List status for three of Antarctica’s most famous ...

Five bird species thought to be missing for years were rediscovered in 2025 — proving they weren’t gone after all.

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

We hear plenty about the baby names on the rise ― from overnight sensations like Truce to vintage reboots like Marjorie. But far less notice is paid to the ones steadily disappearing from birth ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A new analysis of hundreds of thousands of names has identified the girls’ and boys’ names with the steepest declines ...

Most phylogenies exist in academic papers and remain difficult to interpret. Cornell’s Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer puts those relationships into a visual, searchable tool. Users can explore ...