Among its most fascinating historical inhabitants was the elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus), a colossal, flightless bird that ...

Elephant birds were flightless birds that went extinct around 1,000 years ago. It is believed that one species of the bird was the biggest bird that ever lived. They grew up to 10 feet tall and laid ...

A dove which is extinct in the wild has hatched for the first time at a zoo as part of an international conservation breeding ...

It was 10 feet tall and weighed more than 1,000 pounds. But that didn’t stop it from going extinct. An intact, fossilized specimen of the world’s largest egg—of any known species ever on Earth—entered ...

Colossal Biosciences aims to rewrite history as they work to resurrect extinct species – and their sights are set on the woolly mammoth and the dodo.

New findings from the humble pigeon may help in an ambitious project to bring back the dodo, an extinct flightless bird, biotech firm Colossal Biosciences says.