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 dodo. The bird — fat and flightless ...

There’s been a lot of lip flapping going on during the past month or so about Big Bird’s owner, Sesame Workshop. It centers ...

As for the dodo, the Nicobar Pigeon is the closest living relative, and the Solitaire, a type of extinct bird that was found ...

Extinction is still forever, but scientists at the biotech company Colossal Biosciences are trying what they say is the next best thing ...

We will discover new tools, new ways that we can help species that are still alive but in danger of becoming extinct.” ...

The dodo was surprisingly also a type of dove ... The study was part of a broader initiative to discover the causes of bird ...

Researchers sequenced the DNA of Cuban blue-headed quail dove, expecting clear origins. Instead, they found it has no close ...

Colossal Biosciences has focused on identifying key traits of extinct animals by studying ancient DNA, with a goal to genetically "engineer them into living animals," said CEO Ben Lamm.

This was an alarming start to the idea of gene de-extinction. As we know from movies like The Thing, digging up frozen creatures from the ice is a bad idea. Many scientists felt that recovering the ...

The dodo was surprisingly also a type of dove ... funded by the National Science Foundation to discover the causes of bird extinction in the Caribbean over the last several thousand years.

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 dodo. The bird — fat and flightless ...