Indonesia's deadly flooding was an "extinction-level disturbance" for the world's rarest great ape, the tapanuli orangutan, ...

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Before humans ever walked the planet, Earth was home to some of the strangest and most terrifying creatures in history — and we narrowly missed sharing the world with many of them. From 10-foot terror ...

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A remarkable fossil discovery in Colombia's Tatacoa Desert has unveiled a new species of terror bird, significantly larger than its known counterparts, offering fresh ...

Terror birds, or Phorusrhacidae, were an apex predator during the Cenozoic era. With powerful legs built for speed, these massive, flightless birds dominated the land ...

The last known photo of the slender-billed curlew, a grayish-brown migratory waterbird, was taken in February 1995 at Merja Zerga, on Morocco’s Atlantic coast. There will likely never be another one.

A biotech startup is taking the first real steps towards bringing the dodo bird back from extinction. No one has seen this bird since the late 17th century, but that doesn't mean it has been forgotten ...

The slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) has been officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). This is the first-ever recorded global bird ...

Twelve million years ago, a huge flightless predator known as a “terror bird” sprinted across tropical floodplains in what is now central Colombia. Archaeologists ...