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The dodo bird vanished more than 300 years ago, but its story still sparks curiosity. Native to just one island and wiped out ...
A company that claims to have resurrected the dire wolf has unveiled plans to bring back the moa, a long-extinct bird that ...
Colossal Biosciences has announced a partnership to resurrect giant flightless birds called moa. But the company's recent ...
A giant, flightless bird that once roamed New Zealand and disappeared around 600 years ago could be brought back from extinction.
The endangered kakapo is a flightless bird native to New Zealand. Its population is growing, but its parasites have dwindled.
“Some of those iconic species that feature in our tribal mythology, our storytelling, are very near and dear to us,” says ...
A species of huge, flightless bird that once inhabited New Zealand disappeared around 600 years ago, shortly after human settlers first arrived on the country’s two main islands. Now, a Texas ...
Colossal Biosciences - which announced in April that it had brought dire wolves back from extinction (only to be met with a howl of critics who called the claims overstated) - is teaming up with ...
In a “Jurassic Park”-esque fashion, “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson and the Texas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences are partnering to “de-extinct” the centuries-extinct New Zealand ...
A 13-million-year-old leg bone from an enormous flightless bird carries crocodilian tooth marks, showing South America was ...
The world is currently experiencing its sixth mass extinction, with potentially thousands of species lost every year.
The term de-extinction is inaccurate, but conservation is still the best way to achieve its stated goals. We need to save the ...