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AI is helping rescue a nearly extinct bird species

The image on the right is the last known photograph of the tooth-billed pigeon, taken by Moeumu Uili in December 2013. The Colossal Foundation has developed an AI algorithm that can detect the ...

Scientists Explored an Island Cave and Found 1 Million-Year-Old Remnants of a Lost World

Up to 50 percent of species—which included 12 bird species and 4 frog species—on Aotearoa’s North Island went extinct before ...
AOL

These species are now extinct, a 'tragic and sobering moment'

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...
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7 extinct birds, 7 mysteries - what the evidence suggests about how they died out

Across all seven continents, iconic birds once dominated their habitats before vanishing in ways that still raise hard ...
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The Rodrigues parakeet's last day: What one extinct bird tells us about the role of museums

One day in August, 1875, a grayish-blue parrot was shot on a small island in the Indian Ocean near Mauritius. It was the last time a Rodrigues parakeet was known to be seen alive. Subscribe to our ...
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17-million-year-old fossil of large extinct songbird discovered in Australia

Fossil remains of a large, now-extinct bird species have been discovered in Australia’s Boodjamulla National Park. The ground-dwelling species – Menura tyawanoides – is an ancient ancestor of ...
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Bird thought to be extinct for 140 years has been rediscovered in the forests of Papua New Guinea

A bird thought to be extinct for 140 years has been rediscovered in the forests of Papua New Guinea. The black-naped pheasant-pigeon was documented by scientists for the first and last time in 1882, ...
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Experts thrilled after spotting thought-to-be extinct bird in remote wilderness: 'Like finding a needle in a haystack'

An expert biodiversity ranger was called in to respond to a tip about a local bird species in New Zealand previously thought to be extinct, the Miami Herald reported. After multiple days of failed ...
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US officials have declared 23 species extinct, including the ivory-billed woodpecker

BILLINGS, Mont. — Death has come knocking one last time for the splendid ivory-billed woodpecker and almost two dozen other birds, fish and other species — the U.S. government is declaring them ...
Forbes

500 Bird Species Face Extinction Within The Next Century

The loss of these birds will lead to the unraveling or to the complete collapse of entire ecosystems. An adult male yellow-bellied sunbird-asity (Neodrepanis hypoxantha) in Ranomafana National Park, ...
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How Scientists Rediscovered This Rare And Elusive Bird That We Thought Was Extinct For 100 Years

The night parrot is a beautiful green and yellow bird native to Australia. These birds are nocturnal, nesting on the ground and favoring desert environments. The night parrot is extremely lightweight ...