Knife-toothed reptiles called sebecids went extinct on the mainland 10 million years ago. New fossil evidence puts them on an island 4 million years ago.

If you close your eyes and picture Hawaii, you probably imagine lush green mountains, vibrant flowers, and the melodic song ...

A bird once declared extinct in the wild has just laid eggs in Hawaii. The sihek vanished by the 1980s after the accidental ...

The journey to recovery was long, complex, and in some ways unprecedented, but has achieved an unthinkable success of ...

One of the birds that laid eggs was born at the Cincinnati Zoo, which played a key role in the decades-long project.

A once-extinct bird has laid eggs in the wild for the first time in nearly 40 years. After returning to the wild in 2024, the ...

The brightly colored birds are extinct in the wild, having disappeared from their native Guam in 1988 due to the introduction ...

Imagine a bird so clever it crafts its own tools, a feathered genius whose very existence teeters on the edge of extinction.

Kaua‘i Forest Bird Recovery Project on Feb. 13 conducted its first release of male mosquitoes into a state forest reserve on the Garden Isle’s vast Alakaʻi Plateau in the battle against avian malaria ...

The issue is of particular concern in Hawaii, which has more endangered species than ... Since humans arrived, 71 birds have ...

The state plans on releasing thousands of bioengineered mosquitoes as “birth control” in Maui forests, hoping it will curb insect populations and slow the spread of avian malaria.

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