Twelve million years ago, a huge flightless predator known as a “terror bird” sprinted across tropical floodplains in what is ...
Standing around 10 feet tall, weighing around 220 pounds and with an axe-like beak capable of delivering devastating strikes, the terror bird would have proved a ...
The slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) has been officially declared extinct by the International Union for ...
No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...
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The Slender-billed Curlew Is Officially Extinct. It’s the First Mainland European Bird Extinction in Modern History
The last known photo of the slender-billed curlew, a grayish-brown migratory waterbird, was taken in February 1995 at Merja ...
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