STANTON FINK illustration For millennia, before humans ever set foot in Hawaii, birds ruled the islands. From mountaintop ... island yet to be formed. As the Pacific Plate moved northwest, Maui ...

The Center has been working to secure Endangered Species Act protection for more than 50 of the world's rarest bird species, including seven South Pacific birds that occur on the Marquesas Islands, ...

In a land without lions, wolves, or even snakes, the apex predator of this realm once had feathers. Before the first ...

Five islands have already disappeared beneath the South Pacific. The Solomon Islands are ... are also threatened by sea level rise. Megapode birds bury their eggs in the lava-heated sand of ...