Innovative advances in DNA sequencing are making it possible to revive extinct bird species like the dodo, great auk, ...

New Zealand’s tiniest birds, long overshadowed in their importance by moa and the other flightless giants of our avifauna, could shed light on one of the great moments in evolutionary history.

New research by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln reports, for the first time, the widespread occurrence of biofluorescence in birds-of ...