One of the most infamous cautionary tales of humanity's follies, the reasons behind the extinction of the dodo are even more depressing than you may realize.

Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless ...

We will discover new tools, new ways that we can help species that are still alive but in danger of becoming extinct.” ...

Ancient DNA shows an endangered dove species ... dodo was surprisingly also a type of dove, and it had at least one close relative that we know of, the Rodrigues solitaire, which is now also extinct.

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

Dodos (Raphus cucullatus) went extinct as a direct result of European colonization in Mauritius.(Image credit: Daniel Eskridge/Stocktrek Images via Getty Images) The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) was a ...

Extinction is still forever, but scientists at the biotech company Colossal Biosciences are trying what they say is the next best thing ...

Reconstruction of a dodo. The dodo, an iconic bird from Mauritius ... A company plans to introduce DNA fragments into modern pigeons to create birds resembling the extinct species. The Tasmanian tiger ...

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.

For decades, this unassuming bird ... species in Australia, but they don’t share a close relationship with American doves either. “This species is even more evolutionarily distinct than the ...

Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless ...