The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History invites visitors to explore two remarkable chapters in the story of life on ...

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

The manumea, also known as the tooth-billed pigeon (Didunculus strigirostris), has been sighted for the first time since 2020. The observations, made in October and November near Uafato on Samoa’s ...

A manumea, the closest living relative of the extinct dodo bird, has been sighted for the first time since 2013, raising hope that the critically endangered species can be saved from extinction. The ...

Rotund, ground-dwelling and unafraid of humans to its own peril, the famed dodo bird became an icon of extinction when it disappeared from the island of Mauritius, and from Earth, in the 17th century, ...

The slaty-masked tinamou, recently discovered in Brazil, is utterly unafraid of people. That could be its undoing, ornithologists worry. By Joe Trezza Rotund, ground-dwelling and unafraid of humans to ...

A biotech startup is taking the first real steps towards bringing the dodo bird back from extinction. No one has seen this bird since the late 17th century, but that doesn't mean it has been forgotten ...

DALLAS — The dodo has been extinct for more than 300 years, but that isn’t stopping Dallas’ Colossal Biosciences from trying to resurrect the 3-foot-tall, flightless bird. Last Wednesday, the ...

The dodo has been extinct for more than 300 years, but that isn't stopping Dallas' Colossal Biosciences from trying to resurrect the 3-foot-tall, flightless bird. On Sept. 17, the "de-extinction" ...