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'De-Extinction' Company Colossal Aims to Bring Back the Dodo

Colossal Biosciences also intends to resurrect the thylacine and woolly mammoth—an ambitious agenda, considering no extinct species has ever been brought back.

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Bring Back Extinct Species Ambitious Plan Draws Investors, Critics

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 spe

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Bring back the dodo? Ambitious plan draws both investors and critics

Colossal Biosciences, the company that wants to revive the woolly mammoth, has now set its sights on the flightless bird that went extinct in 1681.

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Comment on Sihek release

Residents and advocates interested in the Sihek, Guam’s kingfisher bird species, are invited to provide their input on the draft environmental assessment for the proposed experimental release of the bird

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Giant extinct marine reptile graveyard was likely ancient birthing grounds

An international research team examined a rich fossil bed in the renowned Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada's Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, where many 50-foot-long ichthyosaurs (Shonisaurus popularis) lay petrified in stone.

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Long-Lost Remains of the Last Tasmanian Tiger Have Been Found in an Australian Museum's Cupboard

The remains of the last-known Tasmanian tiger have been found sitting in a museum cupboard, putting an end to a decades-long search.

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World's most unique birds are facing extinction

A recent study found that bird species with uncommon or severe combinations of traits are more likely to become extinct.

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Plant thought extinct in Vermont since 1908 rediscovered on Mt. Mansfield

Vermont botanists had searched Mt. Mansfield, where the plant was last seen, on several occasions over the past decades in hopes of rediscovering the plant. However, all attempts were unsuccessful until last month.

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