The scientific breakthrough, announced on this day in 1997, proved that geneticists could clone an adult mammal, giving rise ...

The dodo and passenger pigeon are among extinct bird ­species that could be brought back to life thanks to gene editing and cross-breeding. A new US project aims to use the humble chicken to revive ...

The Highly Pathogenic avian influenza virus is a highly contagious disease that spreads among birds and other animals.

Dr Anna Berenson has started a five-year project to perfect the process of creating one bird species from a close relative ...

Genetically modified chickens could be the key to protecting endangered species and bringing back extinct ones, scientists ...

Large birds -- our closest relations to dinosaurs -- are capable of technical innovation, by solving a physical task to gain access to food.

Palaeognaths include emus and ostriches, and can reach 9 feet tall and weigh upwards of 300 pounds. They are more known for ...

Purnima Devi Barman and her community have worked to more than quadruple a population of storks in Assam, India.

Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

Innovative advances in DNA sequencing are making it possible to revive extinct bird species like the dodo, great auk, ...