In 2002, scientists at Oxford were able to pull out genetic samples, including DNA, from the specimen so that they could ...

The dodo bird (Raphus cucullatus) is one of history's most famous cautionary tales: a flightless bird that vanished forever because of human recklessness. For centuries, the standard narrative has ...

The dodo wasn’t as daffy a duck as we once thought. Despite their dim reputation, evolutionary biologists have learned that the infamously extinct bird, hunted out of existence by humans in the ...

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 dodo was a flightless bird about the size of a male turkey that had a long, hooked beak and the goofy charm of an emperor penguin. Its ancestor first appeared on Earth more than 25 million ...

And so now we talk about being 'as dead as a dodo.' But in spite of its fame, this one is a fake. Its feathers come from a goose. Its feet were modeled on a turkey and its beak, I suspect, is plaster.

The Mauritius Dodo more commonly just dodo, was a metre-high (three-foot) flightless bird of the island of Mauritius. The dodo, which is now extinct, lived on fruit and nested on the ground.

According to a digital 3D model of the bird Hume developed based on a skeleton from the Durban Natural Science Museum in South Africa, the dodo once stood around 70 centimeters (2.3 feet) tall and ...

And so now we talk about being 'as dead as a dodo.' But in spite of its fame, this one is a fake. Its feathers come from a goose. Its feet were modeled on a turkey and its beak, I suspect, is plaster.

The word “dodo” has multiple possible origins. It may have been coined by the Portuguese mariners who visited Mauritius in 1507 and called the bird “doudo,” meaning “fool” or “crazy.” ...