People and Institutions

1+ hour, 46+ min ago   (595+ words) DALLAS — A U.S. biotech company said it is making progress toward its goal of resurrecting the dodo, the famous flightless bird with a large hooked beak, and returning it to its native Indian ​Ocean island of Mauritius, where humans drove it…...

8+ hour, 18+ min ago   (921+ words) Colossal Biosciences, the world’s first de-extinction company, announced new scientific milestones that will accelerate dodo de-extinction efforts — or bringing back the extinct dodo bird. And previously, Colossal said it had figured out how to make artificial eggs to breed avian…...

10+ hour, 56+ min ago   (575+ words) The crow-sized Jurassic bird lived 150 million years ago A newly discovered fossil of a crow-sized bird that inhabited China around 150 million years ago features surprisingly small wings, indicating it was better suited for running than flying — a finding that paints…...

8+ hour, 21+ min ago   (203+ words) Oct 14, 2026, 17:00 ET New AI platform GenoMorph identifies candidate regulatory DNA linked to the dodo's distinctive craniofacial anatomy, while technologies adapted from earlier species programs advance Nicobar pigeon germ-cell development, chicken stem-cell chimeras and embryo gene editing. Unlike protein-coding genes, which…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (310+ words) Fernando E. Novas is at the Natural History “Félix de Azara” Foundation, Hidalgo 775, Buenos Aires, Argentina and the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina. The many charismatic species of bird often capture people’s imagination and have…...

13+ hour, 16+ min ago   (370+ words) For early birds, evolution wasn't always about becoming better flyers. This conclusion is supported by the recent discovery of a remarkably well-preserved, 150-million-year-old bird fossil from Fujian Province, China, which is challenging long-held assumptions about early bird evolution. Discovered in…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (624+ words) A northern gannet scans the sea for fish from 100 feet in the air. Upon seeing a school, it pitches its body into a nosedive, somehow breaking the surface at 70 miles per hour without breaking its neck. This daring maneuver seems…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (231+ words) Posted by Rahma Mohamed, on 12 October 2026 This summer, I was able to gain insight into where evolution and development meet during my time working in the laboratory of James DiFrisco. My project focused on understanding the evolution and development of…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (852+ words) Home » Wildlife » Do Ostriches Really Bury Their Heads in the Sand and Where That Myth Came From Read all the way to the end – we save the one detail most people never think about for last. The notion that ostriches…...

4+ week, 10+ hour ago   (648+ words) Sarah Kuta | Daily Correspondent In 2016, paleontologist David DeMar Jr. was searching for fossils in northeastern Montana when he discovered a small, broken piece of fossilized dinosaur poop. As he took a closer look, DeMar was shocked to discover a tiny,…...