No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

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 has staked hundreds of millions of dollars on the idea that extinct species can be engineered back into ...

A biotech startup is taking the first real steps towards bringing the dodo bird back from extinction. No one has seen this bird since the late 17th century, but that doesn't mean it has been forgotten ...

A rendering of the dodo, one of the extinct species Colossal Biosciences is attempting to bring back. Courtesy Colossal Biosciences Extinction is supposed to be permanent. But Colossal Biosciences, a ...

If you’ve ever heard the phrase ‘as dead as a dodo,’ it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the dodo is, in fact, exactly that – dead. Entirely extinct, that is. With no one but humans to blame.

The slaty-masked tinamou, recently discovered in Brazil, is utterly unafraid of people. That could be its undoing, ornithologists worry. By Joe Trezza Rotund, ground-dwelling and unafraid of humans to ...