The bird that hatches from that egg will be a regular pigeon, but with one key difference: Its reproductive organs will ...

The dodo was a flightless bird about the size of a male turkey that had a long, hooked beak and the goofy charm of an emperor penguin. Its ancestor first appeared on Earth more than 25 million ...

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.

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 dodo bird has been extinct since the 17th century. PA Images via Getty Images. For investors, the “de-extinction” effort is only part of the appeal.

Genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences said Tuesday that it will try to resurrect the extinct dodo bird, and it’s received $150 million in new funding to support its “de-extinction ...

Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. ... The birds’ girth — a dodo could easily weigh 50 pounds — helped foster that image. A single one could feed 25 sailors, ...

The dodo is also a new direction in a biological sense, in that it's a bird. In mammals, things like cloning, gene editing, and other manipulations are done all the time and have been used ...

Animalia The dodo bird is extinct. This scientist says she can bring it back. The company she works for is betting millions it can realize a once-far-fetched idea of “de-extinction.” ...

The word “dodo” has multiple possible origins. It may have been coined by the Portuguese mariners who visited Mauritius in 1507 and called the bird “doudo,” meaning “fool” or “crazy.” ...