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 ...

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

The dodo is one step closer to being resurrected thanks to a remarkable new genetic engineering experiment. Scientists have genetically "edited" chickens - which they could lay eggs containing the ...

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 ...

Once upon a time, the likes of Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg imagined a world where scientists on the cutting edge of genetic research pieced together bits of DNA, both ancient and modern, to ...

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 ...

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

According to the Samoa Conservation Society, the last confirmed manumea sighting before this series was in August 2020.