Everyone knows what a bird is – and pretty much everyone knows what a dinosaur is. But not everyone is aware that birds evolved from dinosaurs approximately 160 million years ago. In fact, birds and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There’s an important concept in evolutionary biology called ...

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 ...