The dodo's closest living relative, the Samoan manumea, was spotted alive in the wild, after being missing for years.

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

After the birth of three pups has been called the "de-extinction" of a species not seen on Earth in more than 10,000 years, the company that made it possible has it sights set on resurrecting more ...

The bioscience startup has attracted billions in investment – and a flurry of criticism, but founder tells the Guardian plans to bring back the woolly mammoth will not be derailed ...

Colossal Biosciences has just announced a world first breakthrough in avian genetics and secured $120 million in new funding to accelerate its dodo de-extinction project. To understand what this means ...

Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based science company, announced on Wednesday that it is working to bring back the dodo bird from extinction using genetic engineering. The dodo bird, which has been ...

(CNN) - A Texas company says it’s a step closer to bringing back the dodo bird from extinction. The dodo bird has been extinct for about 400 years. Wednesday, Colossal Biosciences announced that it is ...

After years of silence, Samoa’s elusive manumea has been sighted again in remote forests, offering fragile hope for the ...

A manumea, the closest living relative of the extinct dodo bird, has been sighted for the first time since 2013, raising hope ...

The dodo bird vanished more than 300 years ago, but its story still sparks curiosity. Native to just one island and wiped out in just a few decades, the dodo has become a symbol of extinction and ...

Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless, found by 17th ...