Colossal Biosciences has just announced a world first breakthrough in avian genetics and secured $120 million in new funding to accelerate its dodo de-extinction project. To understand what this means ...

Colossal Biosciences has staked hundreds of millions of dollars on the idea that extinct species can be engineered back into existence, and its dodo program is the most technically daring bet of all.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The dodo is so extinct that it has become a cultural byword for extinction -- though that might not be true forever. Colossal ...

Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless, found by 17th ...

Colossal Biosciences says it has taken a large leap forward in bringing the extinct dodo bird back to life. On Wednesday, Sept. 17, the bioengineering company announced a scientific breakthrough in ...

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 ...

Thousands of dodos could return within a decade according to Colossal Biosciences, a ‘de-extinction’ company – but experts warn of ‘moral hazard’ Since its demise in the 17th century, the dodo has ...

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 ...

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 ...

This story is part of our Chief Innovation Officer Forecast series with Quartz, a business report from the front lines of the future. Colossal Biosciences has generated a flurry of headlines in recent ...

Scientists have set the record straight on the scientific history of the dodo more than 300 years after the bird is thought to have gone extinct. As detailed in a paper published in the Zoological ...

Vikash Tatayah had never heard of Colossal Biosciences until the Texas-based company announced plans last year to bring back the dodo. Widely known for wanting to “de-extinct” the woolly mammoth, it ...