Conservationists are feeling cautiously optimistic after spotting a critically endangered bird in the wild in Samoa. During a ...

Deep in a remote Samoan rainforest, field researchers have just confirmed something many biologists had quietly stopped ...

After years of silence, Samoa’s elusive manumea has been sighted again in remote forests, offering fragile hope for the ...

A manumea, the closest living relative of the extinct dodo bird, has been sighted for the first time since 2013, raising hope ...

According to the Samoa Conservation Society, the last confirmed manumea sighting before this series was in August 2020.

The manumea, a critically endangered ground pigeon and one of the closest living dodo relatives, has been spotted multiple ...

As a critically endangered species, the manumea could be considered mostly dead, but there’s a big difference between that ...

Since 2014, Samoa’s “little dodo” has been listed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List: related to the extinct dodo, an adult manumea, as it’s called locally, has not been photographed well ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

The dodo bird vanished more than 300 years ago, but its story still sparks curiosity. Native to just one island and wiped out in just a few decades, the dodo has become a symbol of extinction and ...

A version of the dodo bird (Raphus cucullatus) could make a return someday soon. Colossal Biosciences announced this week several milestones in its quest to bring the extinct species back to life. On ...