An artist's depiction of Macronectes tinae, a newly identified extinct species of giant petrel that lived in New Zealand. Simone Giovanardi, © Te Papa under CC-BY 4. ...

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In the middle of the night, an albatross rests on its single, precious egg. But the great bird is disturbed by the approach of webbed feet padding in the darkness. The albatross stands to defend its ...

Giant bird-eating centipedes may sound like something out of a science-fiction film — but they’re not. On tiny Phillip Island, part of the South Pacific’s Norfolk Island group, the Phillip Island ...

ALMOST 12,000km from home, this rare, ocean-going scavenger spent a sorry Christmas Day washed up on a Central Coast beach - alone, anaemic and injured. The southern giant petrel, whose sex is not yet ...

The Sixty-third Supplement to the Check-list of North American Birds, a publication of the American Ornithological Society (AOS), is published today in the journal Ornithology and includes numerous ...