The palila is among the Hawaiian birds that Daniel Lewis will talk about. (Paul Banko) A native of Hawai’i, Lewis will talk ...

The extinct species include eight of Hawaii’s precious honeycreeper birds, the Little Mariana fruit bat of Guam, the Bridled ...

The bone, described two decades after its discovery, suggests the species might have grown up to 20 percent bigger than other ...

Sischo and his team with Hawaii’s Department of Land and Natural Resources have the heavy task of saving what’s left. To stave off extinction, 40 species of snails, each about the size of a dime, live ...

Disney has a role in the attempt to get an almost-extinct species of bird called the Guam kingfisher ... a U.S. territory south of Hawaii. Two other kingfishers were examined, and final health ...

There’s millions of invasive snakes on this tiny island, where they were accidentally introduced during World War II. Since ...

Environmental historian and author Daniel Lewis will deliver a free illustrated lecture based on his book Belonging on an Island – Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawai’i on Tuesday, November 19 ...

The extinction of birds due to man has caused the loss of three billion years of unique evolutionary history, claims new research. The true global impact of the loss of hundreds of avian species ...

New research published in Austral Ornithology attempts to understand why. “The extinction of only one bird species (paradise parrot, Psephotellus pulcherrimus) from the Australian mainland ...

The extinction of 610 bird species over 130,000 years is documented, coinciding with human expansion. Researchers highlight the ecological impacts, including loss of pollination and seed dispersal.