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Dodo and other extinct birds could be brought back to life using Jurassic park-style science
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 ...
Bird flu found in Allentown; how do you get bird flu? Is there a bird flu vaccine?
The Highly Pathogenic avian influenza virus is a highly contagious disease that spreads among birds and other animals.
Chickens could bring the dodo back with help of Jurassic Park-style science
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 planned in quest to bring back extinct species
Genetically modified chickens could be the key to protecting endangered species and bringing back extinct ones, scientists ...
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Big birds like emus are technical innovators, study shows
Large birds -- our closest relations to dinosaurs -- are capable of technical innovation, by solving a physical task to gain access to food.
Emus might not be the ‘world’s dumbest bird’ after all
Palaeognaths include emus and ostriches, and can reach 9 feet tall and weigh upwards of 300 pounds. They are more known for ...
This Conservationist Is Saving One of the World’s Most Endangered Storks
Purnima Devi Barman and her community have worked to more than quadruple a population of storks in Assam, India.
A 69-Million-Year Evolutionary Mystery: Scientists Discover Oldest Modern Bird
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, ...
10 extinct bird species that scientists are working to bring back
Innovative advances in DNA sequencing are making it possible to revive extinct bird species like the dodo, great auk, ...