What the dodo symbolizes has changed over time. It has been, variously, a parable, a joke and a warning. When we see it as an ...

But he had never seen a living dodo and based his image on accounts by seafarers. I've often wondered whether dodos actually looked like that. But unfortunately, they'd all disappeared before ...

On first inspection, the Cuban blue-headed quail dove doesn't look like much: drab brown feathers, a slender beak, and a ...

Then we can work out how the muscles worked inside the body. The dodo was a giant ground pigeon, unlike anything living today. As we can't make comparisons, we have to rely on maths and measurements.

Colossal Biosciences has focused on identifying key traits of extinct animals by studying ancient DNA, with a goal to genetically "engineer them into living animals," said CEO Ben Lamm.

At Colossal’s gleaming white lab in Dallas, Shapiro watched as one of the company’s scientists, Anna Keyte, probed an egg of ...

Because cloning requires the use of intact living cells, it is only really suitable ... Julian Hume, an avian paleontologist who studies the dodo at London's Natural History Museum, asks CNN's ...