A bird thought to be extinct for 140 years has been rediscovered in the forests of Papua New Guinea. The black-naped pheasant-pigeon was documented by scientists for the first and last time in 1882, ...

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Proving that nature will always surprise and delight us, researchers have just identified a remarkable extinct shelduck from New Zealand’s remote Chatham Islands that evolved to spend more time ...

Islands are known for producing unusual animals, and a newly studied extinct bird from Hawaii may be one of the strangest yet. Scientists have discovered that a flightless Hawaiian ibis called ...