The firm has grown “primordial germ cells” (early embryonic cells) from Nicobar pigeons, the dodo’s closest living relative, ...

Madagascar was once home to the elephant bird, the largest bird species ever known, standing over three metres tall and ...

Scientists have long been mystified about how huge, flying-capable birds such as ostriches, emus and kiwis wound up on ...

Scientists knew almost nothing about how ebony trees, used for guitars and piano keys, grow. A new study reveals the secret ...

At some point, you’ve probably visited Seneca Park Zoo. Perhaps you watched polar bear Anoki splash around in her pool or you ...

Torn off from the Indian subcontinent some 88 million years ago, it’s a Petri dish of endemic evolution: the Texas-sized ...

A remarkable fossil in the National Museum of Natural History’s collection reveals that the ancestors of modern flightless birds were capable of flying long distances ...

Research finds that the ancient ostriches developed their flightlessness that we find in modern birds due to the absence of predators.

Colossal Biosciences aims to rewrite history as they work to resurrect extinct species – and their sights are set on the woolly mammoth and the dodo.

This is a story about a bird and a family. But this is no ordinary bird, and this is no ordinary family. Spix’s macaw, a ...