The slaty-masked tinamou, found in Brazil, is utterly unafraid of people. That could be its undoing, ornithologists worry.

This bird is totally crazy-looking, and it is an opera singer,” says a biologist from Colombia and an expert on Neotropical ...

The dodo is usually depicted as a slow, dim-witted, goofy-looking bird, a total evolutionary loser. But what if, for all these centuries, the dodo bird has just been misunderstood?

Key breakthrough for the return of the dodo: viable cells have been obtained and genetically modified birds have been prepared.

Discovered in the 1600s and driven to extinction less than 80 years later, the large, flightless Dodo bird has served as a longtime reminder of the importance of environmental and animal conservation.