Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Even the beautifully imagined, sweet-natured, kid-friendly show “Dead as a Dodo,” by the extraordinary ... involves a skeleton child and his skeletal bird friend, hopping around in the ...

and dodo bird. Through genetic engineering and advanced biotechnology, scientists hope to reverse extinction. But while the possibility is intriguing, the process raises ethical, environmental, and ...

Contrary to popular belief, the dodo wasn't devoured into extinction by Dutch sailors; it was a hardy survivor thriving in ...

This poor old bird is a dodo. It once lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. And it's almost certainly the first animal species that human beings actually exterminated in historic ...

Inside, between rows of incubators and microscopes, Beth Shapiro and her team are attempting a feat straight out of science fiction: reviving the dodo, a bird that’s been extinct for more than ...

It's difficult to know what birds 'think' when they fly ... birds by making digital 'endocasts' from the area inside a bird skeleton's empty cranial space. It's difficult to know what birds ...

Sir David Attenborough befriends a lifelike diplodocus as its towering skeleton replica comes to life. During this encounter, surprising truths are revealed about this extinct dinosaur.

A new report suggests that more Americans may be walking around with bird flu − and not even know it. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention randomly tested 150 ...