In the depths of the Amazon rainforest, a strange song drew scientists to a new species of bird, the first of its kind ...

The slaty-masked tinamou, found in Brazil, is utterly unafraid of people. That could be its undoing, ornithologists worry.

Key breakthrough for the return of the dodo: viable cells have been obtained and genetically modified birds have been prepared.

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 ...

DALLAS — The place where the dead may be brought back to life is a drab, single-story building in an office park next to a ...