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 farmyard chicken has emerged as an unlikely lynchpin in the research to protect its endangered wild cousins - and even ...

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

Colossal Biosciences, a company based in Dallas, recently received a $200 million investment to work on a project that might ...

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

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

Today’s Forbes Daily newsletter covers Colossal Biosciences' plan to bring back the wooly mammoth, Apple’s new iPhone 16e, IRS job cuts, Palantir’s stock drop and more.

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, ...

Hidden beneath Egypt’s desert sands, scientists uncovered a nearly complete skull of Bastetodon, a 30-million-year-old ...

Research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology has unveiled a landmark discovery—fossils of the world's ...

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

Sir David Attenborough befriends a lifelike diplodocus as its towering skeleton replica comes to life. During this encounter, surprising truths are revealed about this extinct dinosaur.