DALLAS — The place where the dead may be brought back to life is a drab, single-story building in an office park next to a semitruck lot. Inside, between rows of incubators and microscopes, Beth ...

Colossal is a firm focused on bioscience and the de-extinction of species like the woolly mammoth and dodo bird.

The extinct dodo bird was said to be unintelligent and clumsy. Contrary to popular belief, the creature’s disappearance had little to do with brain function or muscle power and a lot to do with human ...

The company’s three active de-extinction projects include the woolly mammoth, the dodo bird and the thylacine (also known as the Tasmanian tiger), a dog-like carnivorous marsupial with stripes.

Inside, between rows of incubators and microscopes, Beth Shapiro and her team are attempting a feat straight out of science fiction: reviving the dodo, a bird that’s been extinct for more than ...