According to a group of biologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the recent finding of a “wonderful specimen” of dodo DNA was the final piece needed to complete the genome of the extinct bird. The discoveries bring the potential of resurrecting the dodo, which became extinct more than three centuries ago, one step closer. The Natural History Museum of Denmark will publish... 

The Woolly Mammoth at the Royal BC Museum, Victoria, British Columbia. Scientists at Harvard University are one step closer to bringing Woolly mammoths back to life, after successfully inserting some sequences of mammoth DNA into an elephant genome. The study is yet to be published, though, as there is still work to do. No recreation of the Ice Age would be complete without large, shaggy woolly mammoths...