There’s been a lot of lip flapping going on during the past month or so about Big Bird’s owner, Sesame Workshop. It centers ...

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.

The blue-headed quail dove is a uniquely ancient species with no close relatives and is now on the brink of extinction. At ...

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-century European sailors on the island of ...

The dodo was surprisingly also a type of dove ... funded by the National Science Foundation to discover the causes of bird extinction in the Caribbean over the last several thousand years.

Researchers sequenced the DNA of Cuban blue-headed quail dove, expecting clear origins. Instead, they found it has no close ...

Colossal Biosciences has focused on identifying key traits of extinct animals by studying ancient DNA, with a goal to genetically "engineer them into living animals," said CEO Ben Lamm.

Biotech company Colossal Biosciences unveiled plans in 2021 to revive the woolly mammoth - and later the dodo bird.