Many people first hear about the dodo bird when reading Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” where a solemn ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The dodo bird isn’t coming back anytime soon. Nor is the woolly mammoth. But a company working on technologies to bring back extinct species has attracted more investors, while other ...

“As dead as a dodo.” For centuries, that phrase has summed up the finality of extinction. The bird itself, a plump, flightless native of Mauritius, vanished in the 1600s, mocked by sailors as ...