The dodo bird thrived for millennia in Southeast Asia, then on Mauritius island where they had no natural predators and plenty to eat. But once humans arrived there in the 17th century, they found ...

The bird that hatches from that egg will be a regular pigeon, but with one key difference: Its reproductive organs will contain dodo DNA. If all goes according to plan, that bird’s offspring, in ...

Then, using CRISPR-Cas9, a revolutionary gene-editing tool, researchers splice mammoth-specific genes into the genome of the Asian elephant to create a hybrid embryo.. This hybrid embryo, which ...

Co-founded by entrepreneur Ben Lamm and biologist George Church, Colossal is currently focusing on bringing back three extinct species: the woolly mammoth, dodo bird and Tasmanian tiger. Using a ...

Colossal Biosciences, the biotech company behind plans to try to bring back the woolly mammoth, Tasmanian tiger and the dodo, raised another $200 million for its research.

- This poor old bird is a dodo. It once lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. And it's almost certainly the first animal species that human beings actually exterminated in historic ...

The dodo was a flightless bird about the size of a male turkey that had a long, hooked beak and the goofy charm of an emperor penguin. Its ancestor first Who’s the Dodo Now?