The extinct flightless pigeon has captured imaginations for over 400 years. Experts and artists are now revealing how much we ...

In 2002, scientists at Oxford were able to pull out genetic samples, including DNA, from the specimen so that they could ...

Lord of the Rings' director Peter Jackson and his partner Fran Walsh invested $15 million in Colossal Biosciences to bring ...

A species of huge, flightless bird that once inhabited New Zealand disappeared around 600 years ago, shortly after human ...

The dodo bird, often depicted as a slow, chubby creature doomed to extinction, has long been misunderstood. However, new research published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society challenges ...

Colossal Biosciences, the startup that brought back the dire wolf, is now focusing on New Zealand's giant moa.

The dodo bird was a giant, flightless pigeon. “It had no natural predators on the island of Mauritius,” Galante said. The island, off the east coast of Africa, was visited by sailors in the ...

The dodo wasn’t as daffy a duck as we once thought. Despite their dim reputation, evolutionary biologists have learned that the infamously extinct bird, hunted out of existence by humans in the ...

Scientists have launched a project to “de-extinct” the famously dead dodo after 361 years and reintroduce the species back to the wild. Colossal Biosciences, the company which also wants to ...

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