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, found by 17th ...

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 ...

However the possibilities don’t stop there as with enough preserved genetic data, scientists hope to one day use this method to bring back extinct birds—like the iconic dodo! This adorable ...

The dodo, the passenger pigeon and the Californian condor are either extinct or heading swiftly towards oblivion. But a new project is hoping to use the humble chicken to revive these birds ...

The eggs cost too much and on any given day, they can be scarce. The problem is the avian flu that is infecting birds across the country — across the world — and has forced the federal ...

This poor old bird is a dodo. It once lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. And it's almost certainly the first animal species that human beings actually exterminated in historic ...

It sounded very Werner Herzog to me: three dozen funny-looking, nearly extinct birds following a customized microlight aircraft for seventeen hundred miles across Europe in order to be ...