Vanished for a century, a rare bird reappears in the wild

Australia’s night parrot, once thought extinct for more than a century, has been rediscovered in Western Australia.
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Every Extinct Star Wars Species And The Endangered Ones Still Surviving

From long forgotten creatures to rare survivors, these are the extinct and endangered species hidden in Star Wars lore.
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Texas Company Takes Bold Steps To Bring Back The Dodo Bird

Colossal Biosciences in Texas is reviving the dodo bird with pigeon DNA, aiming for de-extinction while collaborating with ...
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Oldest known bacterial DNA found in a mammoth that lived more than a million years ago

The researchers analyzed 483 mammoth remains, mostly molars but also tusks and bones. The oldest samples are 1.1 million years old and belonged to a steppe mammoth — a species that later gave rise to ...
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Scientists Investigate the Bacteria That Colonized Extinct Mammoths—and Uncover the Oldest Known Microbial DNA From a Host

Nicolás Rascován, a geneticist at the Pasteur Institute in France who was not involved with the research but did help peer-review the paper, echoes that sentiment, adding that the research “opens the ...