Once only found on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, the dodo was, according to a webpage from the University of Oxford's Natural History Museum, "a large flightless bird" whose physical ...

Why? And the dodo bird. Why!?" She did, however, enjoy the prospect of seeing a Tasmanian tiger in the wild once again: "I like that," she said with a smile, before turning to her cohosts to ask ...

Colossal chief science officer Beth Shapiro, at left, and Ben Lamm, co-founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences, with an image of the dodo, an extinct bird that Colossal has announced it hopes to ...

Also on Colossal's de-extinction list are the dodo bird and the Tasmanian tiger. In the late 1500s, human settlers arrived on the East Africa island of Mauritius, the only place the dodo bird is ...

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