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 poster child of extinction is also one of the most misunderstood birds. We typically picture dodos as slow, stupid creatures. In fact, they were fast and powerful. Researchers from the University ...

Since last being sighted in 1662, the dodo has become the symbol of extinction. But despite its fame, astonishingly little is known about this large, flightless bird. Scientists are attempting to ...

An audacious collaboration between geneticists and conservationists plans to bring back the extinct dodo and reintroduce it to its once-native habitat in Mauritius. US-based biotechnology and genetic ...

Researchers are setting out to challenge our misconceptions about the Dodo, one of the most well-known but poorly understood species of bird. Researchers have undertaken the most comprehensive review ...

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 ...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – Scientists said they likely have found a complete skeleton of the long-extinct dodo bird. The dodo was native to Mauritius when no humans lived there, but its numbers rapidly ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The dodo is an extinct flightless bird whose name has become synonymous with stupidity. But it turns out that the dodo was no bird brain, but instead a reasonably brainy bird.