Move over, French Bulldogs, there’s a new dog stealing the spotlight, and he’s got ears for days. A rare Podenco, often called “The Great Forgotten,” is winning over the internet with his enormous, ...

Britain supports a wide variety of species found nowhere else on Earth. But many of these are seldom celebrated and in some cases barely known. James Harding-Morris, who has just written a new book, ...

A common cuckoo, a species native to Europe and Asia, made several recent appearances in Riverhead, N.Y. The birds have been spotted in a handful of places in the lower 48 states, experts said.

Birds that end up far from home, like the New York common cuckoo, are known as “vagrants.” They’re fairly common during ...

The cuckoo, which has been spotted only four times in the mainland US, is native to Europe and winters in Africa.

The specimen might be our greatest opportunity to unlock the mysteries surrounding how the bird behaved, how it lived, how it ...

A bird found in some of the southernmost parts of the United States made an exceedingly rare appearance in Massachusetts last week, delighting South Shore bird lovers, locals and photographers with ...

The science pros at The King of Random explore how scientists are working to bring back the extinct dodo bird.

THAT IS? CAN I JUST TELL YOU? I TOTALLY GET NOW WHY PEOPLE STOP WHAT THEY WERE DOING AND CAME RUNNING DOWN HERE TO SEE THIS BIRD FIRSTHAND. YOU KNOW, BIRDERS LIKE THIS IS A BIG DEAL. AND IT WAS ...

A biotech startup is taking the first real steps towards bringing the dodo bird back from extinction. No one has seen this bird since the late 17th century, but that doesn't mean it has been forgotten ...