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 ...

I have never thought stuffed birds make good museum exhibits. A stuffed bird looks exactly that – stuffed. Compared to mammals or arthropods, birds lack physical diversity; their behavior and song are ...

Sir David Attenborough comes face-to-face with the dodo, the first animal driven to extinction by humans in recorded history. In this extraordinary encounter, he reveals how this long-lost species ...

The dodo, a three feet tall bird weighing up to 39 pounds, used to live on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius before becoming extinct.

Going the "way of the dodo bird" could take on new meaning in just a few years, as a Texas company says it aims to bring back the long-extinct creature. Colossal Biosciences, which previously made ...

Colossal Biosciences wants to bring back the woolly mammoth and dodo bird. Scientists are skeptical such feats are possible or a good idea.

As for studying the bird once reintroduced, “at best, Colossal can only produce a bird with some dodo-like qualities, and a bird that has no inherent idea of how to live in the wild, so it would ...

The dodo, a three feet tall bird weighing up to 39 pounds, used to live on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius before becoming extinct.

By Tom Page, CNN (CNN) — An audacious collaboration between geneticists and conservationists plans to bring back the extinct dodo and reintroduce it to its once-native habitat in Mauritius. US ...