An advertisement for the 1994 World Cup, fast food wrappers, COVID-19 masks—what birds used to build their nests reflects a world with more plastic. A coot bird in London on a nest made of twigs ...

Purnima Devi Barman and her 'Hargila Army' has turned the bird's fate around. Greater Adjutant storks at the Boragaon Garbage Dumping site in Assam, India. Known locally as hargila, the adjutant ...

Colossal Biosciences isn’t exactly a household name. But you’ve probably at least heard of some of their goals and “achievements:” bringing back woolly mammoths and dodo birds, creating “woolly mice” ...

If this plan is successful, Colossal Bioscience hopes to de-extinct other creatures such as the Tasmanian tiger and the dodo bird. All of which begs the question, what will it do for fishing?

Birds that babysit: scientists reveal long-tailed tits' remarkable family ...

Colossal Biosciences, an American biotechnology company, announced the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf, a prehistoric wolf species that died out more than 10,000 years ago, in April 2025.

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From her seat on The View, the Oscar-winning actress made it clear: she has no interest in seeing the long-extinct dodo bird make a comeback anytime soon. The actress, recently issued a stern decree ...

"But neither is that the goal. Our goal is to create functional equivalents of those species,” the scientist said. The company plans to apply this technique to dodo birds and woolly mammoths. Just ...