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 cemetery in Bavaria, Germany (A). The skeleton of a victim of the Plague of Justinian (C). Objects (E) from the grave (B) that helped scientists to estimate the plague victim’s death as occurring between 525 AD and 550 AD. A tooth from which the genome of the plague was extracted (D). Scientists have reconstructed the genome of the first recorded bubonic plague and compared it to two later pandemics....