Some 144 bird species had not been seen in at least a decade, but a project by conservation organizations proposes they all may still be hidden somewhere in the wild. Clockwise from top left: Santa ...

In the olden days of ornithology, shotguns were the lethal equivalent of binoculars. Ornithologists collected specimens of birds that they saw, and these provided indisputable documentation of a ...

Found in the forests of Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and Eastern Australia, birds of paradise are famous for flashy feathers and unusually shaped ornaments, which set the standard for haute couture ...

The typical wild green form of the Lineolated parakeet does not appear on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services' approved captive-bred bird import list, but it does allow other color mutations that do ...

Melting sea ice and deforestation are continuing to drive many species toward extinction, with the latest Red List of Threatened Species showing that more than a quarter of all animals, plants and ...

Stacker compiled a list of exotic pets available for adoption near Cincinnati, Ohio on Petfinder. Birds, barnyard animals, horses, and reptiles were included in the list if available.

Ishmael Butler assembles a crew of interstellar rap voyagers on a brief, echoey mixtape you might expect to find floating amid the space debris of an Afrofuturist universe. Butler’s presence is still ...