Centuries ago, Mauritius held a world unlike anything sailors expected to find. The island sat far from major travel routes, ...

This bird is totally crazy-looking, and it is an opera singer,” says a biologist from Colombia and an expert on Neotropical ...

Key breakthrough for the return of the dodo: viable cells have been obtained and genetically modified birds have been prepared.

Not content with aiming to resurrect the woolly mammoth and the thylacine, Colossal Biosciences has now announced the third animal on its de-extinction list – the dodo. This comes on the heels of a ...

WASHINGTON — The dodo bird isn’t coming back anytime soon. Nor is the woolly mammoth. But a company working on technologies to bring back extinct species has attracted more investors, while other ...

The Dodo bird is one of the most famous birds in the world, despite the fact that nobody alive has actually seen one. They have been extinct since the 17th century, thanks almost entirely to humans.

Has humanity learned its lesson after driving the dodo to extinction? With the environment and biodiversity still at risk, it doesn't seem so. The Oxford University Museum of Natural History is home ...

Scientists are piecing together clues about the life of the dodo, hundreds of years after the flightless bird was driven to extinction. Few scientific facts are known about the hapless bird, which was ...