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 ...

The dodo's closest living relative, the Samoan manumea, was spotted alive in the wild, after being missing for years.

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 ...

The detection happened in October and November near Uafato on Samoa’s island of Upolu. Manumea is a special bird for experts because it is deemed to be the closest relative of the legendary Dodo. Dodo ...

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Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based science company, announced on Wednesday that it is working to bring back the dodo bird from extinction using genetic engineering. The dodo bird, which has been ...

(CNN) — A plan to genetically engineer a version of the dodo, a giant flightless bird that disappeared 400 years ago and became the poster child for extinction, has made some headway, according to ...

Since 2014, Samoa’s “little dodo” has been listed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List: related to the extinct dodo, an adult manumea, as it’s called locally, has not been photographed well ...

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