DALLAS — The place where the dead may be brought back to life is a drab, single-story building in an office park next to a ...

As for the dodo, the Nicobar Pigeon is the closest living relative, and the Solitaire, a type of extinct bird that was found ...

The blue-headed quail dove is a uniquely ancient species with no close relatives and is now on the brink of extinction. At ...

The birds’ girth — a dodo could easily weigh 50 pounds ... Using fossils, he argued in 1796 that many species had become extinct in the wake of natural catastrophes. Humans had been ...

eggs and young - than of a bird that disappeared relatively recently due to human interference. The dodo lived solely in Mauritius and we know it was extinct by around 1680, less than 100 years after ...

Scientists at a Dallas, Texas-based company recently announced that they would be attempting to bring the dodo bird, which became extinct in 1681, back to life with a process called de-extinction.

The dodo was a flightless bird that lived on the island nation of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. It is a case study of extinction caused by humans. The dodo had adapted to its isolated ecosystem ...

The dodo was surprisingly also a type of dove ... she and her colleagues discovered the first—albeit extinct—Caribbean bird whose closest relatives are in Africa, New Guinea and New Zealand.