Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless, found by 17th ...

Colossal Biosciences has just announced a world first breakthrough in avian genetics and secured $120 million in new funding to accelerate its dodo de-extinction project. To understand what this means ...

Humanity is now one step closer to potentially bringing a large, flightless pigeon that was last seen in 1662 back from extinction. Scientists at Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences Inc. have developed ...

The specimen might be our greatest opportunity to unlock the mysteries surrounding how the bird behaved, how it lived, how it ...

Scientists have set the record straight on the scientific history of the dodo more than 300 years after the bird is thought to have gone extinct. As detailed in a paper published in the Zoological ...

The dodo is one of the most iconic—and misunderstood—extinct animals. Four hundred years after its extinction, the popular narrative remains that the flightless bird was simply too dumb, slow, and ...

A plan to genetically engineer a version of the dodo, a giant flightless bird that disappeared 400 years ago and became the poster child for extinction, has made some headway, according to Texas-based ...

Colossal Biosciences says it has taken a large leap forward in bringing the extinct dodo bird back to life. On Wednesday, Sept. 17, the bioengineering company announced a scientific breakthrough in ...

Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based science company, announced on Wednesday that it is working to bring back the dodo bird from extinction using genetic engineering. The dodo bird, which has been ...

The dodo bird vanished more than 300 years ago, but its story still sparks curiosity. Native to just one island and wiped out in just a few decades, the dodo has become a symbol of extinction and ...