The plane departed from Adelaide, Australia, on Sunday, Jan. 18, but ended up delaying passengers more than six hours Alamy A Qantas flight from Adelaide to Port Lincoln, Australia, was forced to turn ...

A newly described species of Tinamou bird may already be at risk of extinction. Adult female Slaty-masked Tinamou (Tinamus resonans). (Credit: Luis Morais / National Museum of Brazil.) A team of ...

The manumea is the national bird of Samoa, but it's on the brink of extinction. Michael Rothman / Rothman Natural Science Illustration Conservationists are feeling cautiously optimistic after spotting ...

The manumea, a critically endangered ground pigeon and one of the closest living dodo relatives, has been spotted multiple times in a remote Samoan rainforest. When you purchase through links on our ...

DreamWorks Animation’s talking-animal movie classic, Madagascar, is coming back to theaters to celebrate its 20th anniversary next month. The company behind Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, and more animated ...

Bird flu, or H5N1, has touched most of the globe, but there is one spot it hasn't reached. Researchers down under are preparing for it, but gaps in bird flu surveillance elsewhere makes it difficult.

The Amazon rainforest has yielded yet another new species, according to a recent study published in Zootaxa. Discovered in the mountains of the Serra do Divisor National Park (SDNP) in Brazil, this ...

A curious seagull strolled nonchalantly through the penguin enclosure at a zoo in Paris. It looked harmless enough but the seagull could pose an existential threat to the penguins with a devastating ...

The dodo is usually depicted as a slow, dim-witted, goofy-looking bird, a total evolutionary loser. But what if, for all these centuries, the dodo bird has just been misunderstood? Bessent says White ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...