A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal's body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and ...

In the depths of the Amazon rainforest, a strange song drew scientists to a new species of bird, the first of its kind ...

The dodo is usually depicted as a slow, dim-witted, goofy-looking bird, a total evolutionary loser. But what if, for all these centuries, the dodo bird has just been misunderstood?

This bird is totally crazy-looking, and it is an opera singer,” says a biologist from Colombia and an expert on Neotropical ...

The slaty-masked tinamou, found in Brazil, is utterly unafraid of people. That could be its undoing, ornithologists worry.

Key breakthrough for the return of the dodo: viable cells have been obtained and genetically modified birds have been prepared.

Known to science as Raphus cucullatus, dodos also went by the nickname “wallowbird”, said to have been inspired by the way ...

DALLAS — The dodo has been extinct for more than 300 years, but that isn’t stopping Dallas’ Colossal Biosciences from trying to resurrect the 3-foot-tall, flightless bird. Last Wednesday, the ...

Last week de-extinction company, Colossal Biosciences, announced it is one step closer to reviving the dodo bird. The breakthrough achievement comes after the company successfully grew pigeon ...

(CNN) — A plan to genetically engineer a version of the dodo, a giant flightless bird that disappeared 400 years ago and became the poster child for extinction, has made some headway, according to ...

(CNN) — A plan to genetically engineer a version of the dodo, a giant flightless bird that disappeared 400 years ago and became the poster child for extinction, has made some headway, according to ...