The new species, named after the electro funk band Chromeo, helps explain the larger story of why only one small group of dinosaurs survived the extinction. A fossil rarely reveals an animal’s entire ...

Last month, a woman was strolling on a beach in Ballito, South Africa, when she noticed a pile of feathers on one of the ...

Picture this. A bird that’s been missing for years, almost written off as another extinction statistic, suddenly reappears in one of the most remote corners of the South Pacific. The manumea, a ...

The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History invites visitors to explore two remarkable chapters in the story of life on Earth—one focused on a crossroads of dinosaur evolution, and the other set ...

In the misty forests of Mauritius, a flightless bird once waddled, unaware that its name would become synonymous with extinction. The dodo—Raphus cucullatus—vanished from Earth around 1662, less than ...

Scientists have confirmed sightings of the elusive manumea, a bird closely related to the extinct dodo, offering new hope for its survival. This elusive behavior, combined with rugged terrain and wet ...

A manumea, the closest living relative of the extinct dodo bird, has been sighted for the first time since 2013, raising hope that the critically endangered species can be saved from extinction. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The manumea was hunted to ...

Rotund, ground-dwelling and unafraid of humans to its own peril, the famed dodo bird became an icon of extinction when it disappeared from the island of Mauritius, and from Earth, in the 17th century, ...

The slaty-masked tinamou, recently discovered in Brazil, is utterly unafraid of people. That could be its undoing, ornithologists worry. By Joe Trezza Rotund, ground-dwelling and unafraid of humans to ...

Even if you've never watched the ‘80s sitcom “WKRP in Cincinnati”, there's one line you're probably familiar with. "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly,” says Dayton-native Gordon Jump, ...