"This is a beautiful surprise." Experts in shock after rediscovering rare species nearly 200 years after it went missing: 'Was thought to have been driven to extinction' first appeared on The Cool ...

The Galápagos Rail has returned after conservationists removed wild cat and rat populations that had driven out the bird ...

The Galapagos Rail had not been seen on this island since Charles Darwin's visit to the archipelago in 1835, until now.

On first inspection, the Cuban blue-headed quail dove doesn't look like much: drab brown feathers, a slender beak, and a ...

By Bobby Bascomb The Galápagos rail, a small, black, ground bird, hadn’t been seen on Floreana Island in the Galápagos since ...

A bird seen by Charles Darwin on his visit to Floreana island in 1835 has been observed in the wild there for the first time ...

The Galápagos Rail ( Laterallus spilonota) is a ground-dwelling species that is extremely vulnerable to predators. The ...

The total of 247 species was five less than the 25-year ... and they re-found the bird and identified it as a king rail. Rails are birds that spend their lives in salt and freshwater marshes ...

and the Galápagos rail was thought to have been driven to extinction on the island by invasive species,” the Galápagos Conservation Trust said. “This small terrestrial bird, endemic to Galapagas, is a ...