A version of the dodo bird (Raphus cucullatus) could make a return someday soon. Colossal Biosciences announced this week several milestones in its quest to bring the extinct species back to life. On ...

The dodo is so extinct that it has become a cultural byword for extinction -- though that might not be true forever. Colossal Laboratories, the controversial biotechnology company behind not ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This illustration of the dodo by Frederick William Frohawk appeared in the 1907 "Extinct Birds" by Walter Rothschild. It was based ...

Thomas Mulligan investigates the groundbreaking scientific efforts and genetic breakthroughs aimed at bringing the long-lost dodo bird back from extinction.

The wildlife of Mauritius, a tropical island in the Indian Ocean about 500 miles east of Madagascar, couldn’t have known that the giant shadows cast across the bay in 1598 would signal doom. A fleet ...

The scientists behind the synthetic egg say it’s a crucial step to the de-extinction of species like the giant moa and the dodo. Colossal Biosciences announced that it successfully hatched 26 chickens ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The dodo is so extinct that it has become a cultural byword for extinction -- though that might not be true forever. Colossal ...

A Texas genetics company working to bring back the woolly mammoth says it’s a step closer to reviving another famed extinct species: the dodo. Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences Inc. said Wednesday it ...