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 ...

From three species of Arctic seals to more than half of all birds globally, several animals have slipped closer to extinction, according to the latest update of the IUCN Red List. However, 20 species ...

The Louisiade pitta is one of the "lost" species found in 2022 and 2023 on Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea. There had been no definite record of this bird since 1898. A group of scientists has ...

Two years ago scientists, following rumors, found and documented the existence of a bird not known to science for 140 years. It was the oddly named black-naped pheasant-pigeon, thought lost to science ...

In 2022, an ornithologist high in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains of northern Colombia spotted the shimmering emerald green and cobalt blue feathers of the Santa Marta sabrewing. A large ...

A group of scientists has released the first comprehensive list of birds that haven’t been documented in more than a decade, with the help of Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Their ...