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 ...

Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based science company, announced on Wednesday that it is working to bring back the dodo bird from extinction using genetic engineering. The dodo bird, which has been ...

A Bird Built For A Safe Island Mauritius shaped the dodo into a bird suited to slow, steady living. With no predators present, the species lost the ability to fly and relied on strong legs to move ...

“As dead as a dodo.” For centuries, that phrase has summed up the finality of extinction. The bird itself, a plump, flightless native of Mauritius, vanished in the 1600s, mocked by sailors as ...

DALLAS — The dodo has been extinct for more than 300 years, but that isn’t stopping Dallas’ Colossal Biosciences from trying to resurrect the 3-foot-tall, flightless bird. On Wednesday, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Once upon a time, the likes of Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg imagined a world where scientists on the cutting edge of ...

A Texas genetics company working to bring back the woolly mammoth says it’s a step closer to reviving another famed extinct species: the dodo. Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences Inc. said Wednesday it ...

A manumea, the closest living relative of the extinct dodo bird, has been sighted for the first time since 2013, raising hope that the critically endangered species can be saved from extinction. The ...

(CNN) - A Texas company says it’s a step closer to bringing back the dodo bird from extinction. The dodo bird has been extinct for about 400 years. Wednesday, Colossal Biosciences announced that it is ...