Ecosystems which have never been seen before are being accidentally created by humans. They offer a stark look into the ...

lava tube caves and crater lake beds in their effort to illuminate Hawaii's splendid isolationist past. Out of this they have gleaned numerous bird genera and at least 50 extinct species new to ...

“an extinction crisis” is right on the horizon,” Smith said during a news conference in Honolulu on Thursday. He and others blamed avian disease as the “main culprit.” “Hawaiian birds ...

Scientists predict their extinction in two to 15 years if ... and can be critical to saving Hawaii’s last forest birds. When male and female mosquitoes have matching Wolbachia strains, the ...

small nectar-sipping songbirds commonly known as Hawaiian honeyeaters, is completely gone (the only bird family to go fully extinct in modern times). The family's last member, the Kauai O'o (Moho ...

Sadly, the IUCN also announced, a Hawaiian bird called the po‘ouli is now considered officially extinct, along with three other bird species: the cryptic treehunter, Alagoas foliage-gleaner and Spix’s ...

The Moho are a genus of extinct birds from Hawaii. Most of them died out because of habitat loss and hunting. The Hawaiian Moho seen here died out in 1934, but some birds like waxwings and the ...

The Hawaiian birds declared extinct today are a case in point. Their forest habitats were razed by development and agriculture. The introduction to the islands of mosquitoes, which are not native and ...

Hank Oppenheimer, from the Plant Extinction Prevention Program, inspects a holokea plant. There are just 57 of them left. It, like many native Hawaiian ... of seeds - birds consume the fruit ...

It's what you don't want to have happen – Corey Tarwater Of the 142 species of bird that evolved to live on Hawaii and nowhere else on the planet, 95 are now extinct, including the moa-nalo ...