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

One of the most infamous cautionary tales of humanity's follies, the reasons behind the extinction of the dodo are even more depressing than you may realize.

The story of the hapless dodo has long endured as a cautionary tale. To be called a dodo today is synonymous with ineptitude. Early researchers believed that the 3-foot-tall, 45-pound bird had too ...

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.

Sir David Attenborough comes face-to-face with the dodo, the first animal driven to extinction by humans in recorded history. In this extraordinary encounter, he reveals how this long-lost species ...

A comprehensive review of dodo science offers new insights into the biology and behavior of the much-ridiculed bird.

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. The ...

A team of scientists want to bring back the dodo bird, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived until the late 17th century.

David Attenborough comes face-to-face with a dodo, the first animal driven to extinction by humans.

The dodo, now long gone, is fixed in society’s imagination as a species seemingly invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct. It's getting an image makeover.