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 arrival ...

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 1600s, ...

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 ...

The dodo bird vanished more than 300 years ago, but its story still sparks curiosity. Native to just one island and wiped out in just a few decades, the dodo has become a symbol of extinction and ...

The name of the flightless dodo bird may today be synonymous with ineptitude (its scientific appellation is, after all, didus ineptus), but the 19th-century scramble to find the first fossil remains ...

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 has ...

Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based science company, announced on Wednesday that it is working to bring back the dodo bird from extinction using genetic engineering. The dodo bird, which has been ...