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Thought to be extinct in the wild, the Spix Macaw currently exists in captivity with their numbers in the dismally low 60 to ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

Once upon a time, the likes of Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg imagined a world where scientists on the cutting edge of genetic research pieced together bits of DNA, both ancient and modern, to ...

One of the unique aspects of our modern era is the ability to preserve sights and sounds. While an animal’s extinction means its physical presence is gone forever, technology allows us to experience a ...

You’ve heard the slogans: save the whales, protect our pollinators. You may have lamented the decline of polar bears or the ...

Mark Walter, the new owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, is backing one of the most ambitious science projects of the decade: bringing back an extinct bird from the dead. It's called the moa, a giant, ...

The dodo bird vanished more than 300 years ago, but its story still sparks curiosity. Native to just one island and wiped out in just a few decades, the dodo has become a symbol of extinction and ...

Along with Colossal Biosciences, the filmmaker is joining an indigenous-centered partnership to resurrect the 12-foot-tall moa, dead for centuries. By Degen Pener Deputy Editor Colossal Biosciences — ...

Colossal Biosciences is working on bringing back a long-dormant animal, and it has found a partner to help. The genetics company is teaming up with "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson to ...

Close Encounters of the Bird Kind. A mother and son in Australia narrowly escaped an encounter with two hungry cassowaries – one of the only bird species on the planet with a track record of killing ...

Stacie Birky Greene’s relationship with birds started as a kid, growing up on a farm with ducks and chickens. Years later, she was listening to a story on NPR about the use of pesticides in a village ...