reviving the dodo, a bird that’s been extinct for more than three centuries. A growing group of scientists is trying to bring back extinct animals, an idea that is drawing closer than ever ...

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 has ...

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

The dodo was a flightless bird that lived on the island nation of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. It is a case study of extinction caused by humans. The dodo had adapted to its isolated ecosystem ...

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

Before extinction, the dodo bird’s home was a sub-tropical island off the east coast of Madagascar called Mauritius. Isolated from the rest of the world, its plants and animals thrived without outside ...

De-extinction, also known as "resurrection biology" and "reanimation," reverses extinction in plants and animals using the ... the efforts to revive the dodo bird. Cloning is the most well-known ...

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