For Shapiro, it’s not just about the dodo. The scientific breakthroughs ... which laid only one egg a year, to go extinct. The odd, flightless bird didn’t fear humans, who clubbed it for ...

Now, scientific breakthroughs are providing an opportunity to rectify our blunders. Efforts to de-extinct the dodo bird are underway. Conservationists and scientists not only can but should follow ...

As explained previously, the woolly mammoth has the potential to not just be a symbol ... of de-extinction. The dodo, a flightless bird native to Mauritius, went extinct in the late 1600s due ...

A rare fragment of a Dodo femur bone is displayed for photographs next to an image of a member of the extinct bird species at Christie's auction house's premises in London, March 27, 2013.

Colossal BioSciences has raised $200 million in a new round of funding to bring back extinct species like the woolly mammoth.

Colossal is a firm focused on bioscience and the de-extinction of species like the woolly mammoth and dodo bird.

The return of the long-extinct wooly mammoth or dodo bird may sound like a storyline straight out of science fiction. It’s not. Several de-extinction projects all share an ambitious aim to resurrect ...