One of the most infamous cautionary tales of humanity's follies, the reasons behind the extinction of the dodo are even more depressing than you may realize.

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 ...

DALLAS — The place where the dead may be brought back to life is a drab, single-story building in an office park next to a ...

Scientists at a Dallas, Texas-based company recently announced that they would be attempting to bring the dodo bird, which became extinct in 1681, back to life with a process called de-extinction.

Julian explains what went wrong for the dodo, why artists exaggerate and which other forgotten species died out alongside the bird. Despite its relatively recent extinction, the life history of the ...

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 ...

Extinction is still happening and often, it is due to human activities. Humans compete with other living organisms for space, food and water - humans are very successful predators. The dodo was a ...

Colossal Biosciences, co-founded by renowned geneticist George Church and entrepreneur Ben Lamm, has been a pioneer in the de-extinction movement ... used to revive the dodo bird by altering ...

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 ...