The achievement could represent an important step toward the possibility of one day bringing back the moa bird.
New research has discovered that the birds we commonly see in towns and cities are more scared of human females.
An adventurous bird was recently filmed exploring the ocean floor in a remarkable, custom-built submersible.
A new study has highlighted a surprising innate ability common to shorebirds that humans also possess.
A bizarre new experiment has seen entire flocks of pigeons fitted with remote-controlled computer chips.
It is thought that this is the largest swarm of the insects to have been seen in the country since 1976.
The striking birds have come up with an ingenious way of operating the fountain using their claws.
The legendary 'Lord of the Rings' director has set his sights on resurrecting one of New Zealand's most iconic species.
Ryan Bodenheimer recently shared his own experiences with unknown objects while flying over the US.
Much has been written about the dodo over the years, but very little of it is based on what these birds were like in life.
This impressive astronomical spectacle happens to bear a resemblance to a particular flightless seabird.
These half-bird, half-lion creatures of myth and folklore were long thought to have been inspired by Protoceratops.
Rumors have swirled for years around the development of a new type of hypersonic reconnaissance aircraft.
Interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals could account for why some of us are predisposed to be early birds.
The well-preserved tracks were left in the silt by a species of bird that would have made even today's ostriches seem tame.
Scientists have been struggling to determine what has been causing the birds to wash up along the shoreline en masse.
Multiple witnesses have recorded footage of a bird just lying there in the sky, apparently not attached to anything.
Palaeontologists have unearthed what is thought to be the leg bones of the largest species of bird to ever live.
The former MoD UFO investigator has suggested that alien monitoring devices could be disguised as common animals.
An obscure breed of pigeon from Budapest is certainly one of the most peculiar birds you are likely to see.