Dodo skull scans show the famously extinct birds were no less brainy than their surviving relatives – and may have roamed at dusk and dawn.
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It’s hard work saving birds from extinction, but we have the evidence of successful interventions to show we can avoid further losses.
New fossils reveal Australia was once home to a much greater diversity of huge eagles and vultures, which died off alongside ‘giant wombats’ and ‘marsupial lions’.
By including five extinct species in its Bird of the Year competition, Forest & Bird provides a way to mourn what we’ve lost – and also strive to save what remains.
Two conservation scholars break down what de-extinction looks like – and the debate over whether it could do any good.
The largest birds that ever lived on Earth, elephant birds have a spotty fossil record. But understanding them could help protect Madagascar’s biodiversity.
The Bahama warbler favours large pine trees and palms, fieldwork shows.
A puzzle over the identity of an extinct bird that laid eggs across Australia has been solved.
Tasmania’s emus were hunted to extinction in the mid-1800s but we could have them back – and their return could help other species survive climate change.
The identification of a vulture that lived more than 50,000 years ago is shedding more light on biodiversity loss and ecosystem change in Australia.
Tracing extinctions that happened centuries ago is difficult. But in New Zealand, the last place to be settled some 750 years ago, ancestral Māori oral traditions retain clues about lost species.
Scientists long assumed that the extinct moa played an important role as a disperser of large seeds. But a new study finds that New Zealand’s largest herbivore only dispersed the tiniest seeds.
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Adjunct Associate Lecturer in Palaeontology, Flinders University
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Associate Professor, University of Waikato
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Conservation biologist, University of Otago
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Senior Research Scientist, South Australian Museum; Flinders University
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Professor of Environmental Ethics and Conservation, Arizona State University
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PhD Candidate in Ecology, University of Canterbury
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Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University
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Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Wildlife Conservation, Australian National University
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Associate professor, Università di Torino
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Professor of Wildlife Conservation, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor in Vertebrate Palaeontology, Flinders University
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Research Associate, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH) Policy Hub – Training and Education, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Conservation Biology, University of East Anglia