No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

The dodo is often viewed as the classic example of extinction and obsolescence. However, the truth is that countless species have met similar fates. Here’s one bird whose epoch ended much in the same ...

A comprehensive review of dodo science offers new insights into the biology and behavior of the much-ridiculed bird. A comprehensive review of dodo science offers new insights into the biology and ...

The dodo bird (Raphus cucullatus) is one of history's most famous cautionary tales: a flightless bird that vanished forever ...

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 ...

A biotech startup is taking the first real steps towards bringing the dodo bird back from extinction. No one has seen this bird since the late 17th century, but that doesn't mean it has been forgotten ...

Once upon a time, the likes of Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg imagined a world where scientists on the cutting edge of genetic research pieced together bits of DNA, both ancient and modern, to ...

Its plans to bring back the dodo, woolly mammoth, and Tasmanian tiger might never work out. But wouldn’t it be cool if they did? The dodo bird was big, flightless, and pretty good eating. All that ...

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