A company that claims to have resurrected the dire wolf has unveiled plans to bring back the moa, a long-extinct bird that ...

The term de-extinction is inaccurate, but conservation is still the best way to achieve its stated goals. We need to save the ...

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The dodo, a flightless bird native to Mauritius, became extinct in 1681. ... Thanks to its close genetic relationship with the Asian elephant (which shares about 98% of the same DNA), ...

Researchers from New Zealand will try to revive extinct birds, with help from Colossal Biosciences and film-maker Sir Peter Jackson.

The company plans to rewrite 85 genes from modern Asian elephant DNA in order to match ... with an image of the dodo, an extinct bird that Colossal has announced it ... dodo bird and Tasmanian ...

Endemic to Madagascar, elephant birds (Aepyornis maximus) were flightless. They reached 3 metres tall, making them the largest birds to have lived, and went extinct about 1000 years ago.

A Famously Extinct Bird, Reconsidered. A comprehensive review of dodo science offers new insights into the biology and behavior of the much-ridiculed bird.