A cute and happy dolphin toy – this is Dodo. Dodo is chasing real ocean and trying to become real dolphin. And it’s trying to jump and fly to escape the toy world. Watch out for the enemy toy ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century.

The Lego Fly With Dodo Airlines set is a bit of an oddity. It's an important location in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and could be even bigger than the set actually has ended up being.

Colossal Biosciences, the Texas-based company working to bring the woolly mammoth out of extinction, has partnered with the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation to do the same to the dodo bird.

The human species was not meant to fly. We are terrestrial, land-bound. Maybe we’re amphibious, because some of us swim, but fly we cannot. Like the dodo, which tried to take off but only went extinct ...

There is the dodo, of course, from Mauritius; but there is also the o'o, from Hawaii. There is the great auk from the Outer Hebrides, and the ivory-billed woodpecker, the "Lord God Bird", from the ...