Keith Corliss of West Fargo long ago crossed out a picture of an ivory-billed woodpecker in one of his bird books. The bird was thought to be extinct and Corliss figured he would never get to see one.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There’s an important concept in evolutionary biology called ...

Islands are known for producing unusual animals, and a newly studied extinct bird from Hawaii may be one of the strangest yet. Scientists have discovered that a flightless Hawaiian ibis called ...

Of all the recently extinct animals, none seems to excite the imagination quite like the dodo-a fact Mark Carnall has experienced firsthand. As one of two Life Collections Managers at the UK's Oxford ...