Researchers from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE, a joint institute of the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) in Barcelona and the Globe ...

Imagine my excitement when I thought I had taken a photograph of a Carolina parakeet, an extinct bird. In the spirit of full ...

It was winter in upstate New York in 1780 in a rural town called Schoharie, home to the deeply religious Palatine Germans. Suddenly, a flock of gregarious red and green birds flew into town, seemingly ...

While 2018 marks the centenary of the death of the last captive Carolina parakeet - North America's only native parrot, a team of researchers have shed new light on the previously known geographical ...

Researchers have produced the first whole genome of the Carolina parakeet, a recently extinct parrot native to the United States. The bird’s DNA reveals that humans (and probably humans alone) brought ...

The yellow-headed Amazon parrot is now officially recognized as endangered and appears to be headed for extinction in the ...

I thought I had taken a photograph of an extinct bird – a Carolina parakeet. In the spirit of full disclosure, it was not a live bird (Hello! Extinct!) but an unlabeled, stuffed specimen tucked away ...

(Charleston-AP) Nov. 8, 2004 - The only parrot that was native to South Carolina vanished a century ago, but in this age of high-tech wizardry could scientists bring the Carolina parakeet back? Bird ...

I thought I had taken a photograph of an extinct bird -- a Carolina parakeet. In the spirit of full disclosure, it was not a live bird (Hello! Extinct!) but an unlabeled, stuffed specimen tucked away ...

Editor's note: The following is the second installment of a monthly series, Hidden Treasures of the Bruce Museum. From a nearly seven-foot ostrich skeleton to tiny hummingbirds, birds are one of ...