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 ...

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.

Jackson told USA TODAY he asked the genetics wizards at the company, referencing the species of flightless birds which were indigenous to New Zealand but went extinct about 600 years ago.

Since then, experts have speculated the bird was extinct, ... For Ugandan farmers, good fences make good neighbors — of elephants. Ashoka Mukpo 13 Jan 2025.