Madagascar is home to some of the world’s most unique and remarkable species. However, one of its most awe-inspiring residents, the elephant bird, vanished from the planet roughly 1,000 years ago.

Imagine an ostrich-like bird that weighed about the same as an adult giraffe. Sounds like the stuff of fantasy? Not so. For about 150 years now, there has been debate over what the largest bird ever ...

Madagascar's recently extinct elephant birds, once thought to be active during the day, were actually nocturnal, according to new research.Credit: John Maisano for the University of Texas at Austin ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Believed to be more than 400 years old and nearly 200 times the size of a chicken egg, an extremely rare elephant bird egg will be auctioned in London this week, with an estimated ...

It’s hasn’t been a great week for news from the animal kingdom so we all need a reminder that it’s not all bad. Kruger National Park in South Africa posted this adorable video of a baby elephant ...

A new study has found that bird flu wiped out half of the world’s largest population of elephant seals. Researchers have estimated that 53,000 female elephant seals died in 2023 after bird flu hit ...

Charlie Bird says wheelchair has given him ‘new lease of life’ ahead of baby elephant sculpture event in Dublin for mental health The former RTÉ news correspondent Charlie Bird will lead a sculpture ...

There's nothing better than watching a baby learning to explore the world. One sweet elephant, Lady Bird at the Fort Worth ...

Following mass deaths within a population of elephant seals, H5N1 has been officially confirmed on Heard Island.