Tag: extinction

Every day for the past 14 years, 72-year-old Masaoki Tsuchiya has set out before sunrise to search for a bird ...

Australia officially listed koalas across a swathe of its eastern coast as “endangered” on Friday, with the marsupials fighting to ...

Glenmore Park"•When volunteer Sarah Price found a baby kangaroo frightened but miraculously alive in the pouch of its dying mother ...

"Pity the poor 107 million homo sapiens in the Philippines."     One million species of plants and animals are ...

Shanghai—The world’s rarest turtle has moved a step closer to extinction after a female specimen died in a Chinese zoo, ...

A team of ornithologists in Ecuador has identified a new species of hummingbird: a lovely blue-green creature that lives in ...

MIAMI"•Passenger pigeons were once so plentiful they could darken the daytime sky when they flew over North America, but oddly, ...

HARTBEESPOORT, South Africa"•Lounging in the shade of a tree, Heathcliff the cheetah oozes sleek grace and power, but he is ...

PONTIANAK, Indonesia"•A striking bird with monochrome plumage and a formidable “beak”, the helmeted hornbill is being hunted to extinction, one ...

A monkey-eating eagle has been hatched in captivity in the Philippines, boosting the critically-endangered giant bird’s fight against extinction. Found ...