Scientists are in heated debate over whether to resurrect the dodo, the flightless bird extinct for over 300 years.

The thought of reviving the foregone dodo is no longer one for the birds. The recent discovery of a “fantastic specimen” of dodo DNA was the last clue needed to complete the extinct bird’s genome, ...

Beth Shapiro has been getting the same question ever since she started her research on ancient DNA, more than two decades ago. "Whenever we would publish a paper, it didn't matter what the paper was, ...

The Dodo, Didus, is a bird that inhabits some of the islands of the East Indies. Its history is little known; but if the representation of it be at all just, this is the ugliest and most disgusting of ...

A near-complete dodo skeleton has sold at auction in Britain for just under 280,000 pounds ($470,000). According to Summers Place Auctions, which sold the skeleton at its West Sussex estate, a private ...