A number of personal changes piled up — a breast cancer scare ... extract the key to de-extincting the dodo: primordial germ cells. In the embryos of birds, humans and many other organisms ...

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 ...

The dodo was a flightless bird that lived on the island nation of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. It is a case study of extinction caused by humans. The dodo had adapted to its isolated ecosystem ...

Palaeognaths include emus and ostriches, and can reach 9 feet tall and weigh upwards of 300 pounds. They are more known for ...

The dodo had downy grey feathers with a white tail plume. The backside of the dodo was believed to have a tuft of lightly coloured feathers ...

The research relates to one of the more controversial ideas in psychotherapy research – the Dodo bird conjecture. Named after a bird in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland which sent several characters ...

Julian explains what went wrong for the dodo, why artists exaggerate and which other forgotten species died out alongside the bird. Despite its relatively recent extinction, the life history of the ...

Dr Anna Berenson has started a five-year project to perfect the process of creating one bird species from a close relative ...