Since last being sighted in 1662, the dodo has become the symbol of extinction. But despite its fame, astonishingly little is known about this large, flightless bird. Scientists are attempting to ...

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 ...

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 1600s, ...

A biotech company announced a bold effort to ‘de-extinct’ the dodo last week. The flightless birds vanished from the island of Mauritius — in the Indian Ocean — in the late seventeenth century, and ...

A genetic engineering company has bold plans to “de-extinct” and “re-wild” the dodo bird — centuries after the flightless fowl waddled the planet. Colossal Biosciences unveiled Tuesday its “Jurassic ...

Dr. Bergland is a professor at Simmons University. 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 ...

Colossal Biosciences, the Dallas de-extinction company, has made a major breakthrough in its attempt to resurrect the dodo bird, which the company raised $150 million to begin efforts on more than two ...