While many birds lay more than one egg at a time, it has been speculated from witness reports that a female dodo would lay only one egg at a time. Since they were flightless, they would build their ...

The dodo is one of the most iconic—and misunderstood—extinct animals. Four hundred years after its extinction, the popular narrative remains that the flightless bird was simply too dumb, slow ...

A 2002 study found that during the breeding season, almost two thirds of artificial bird nests were preyed upon by these species. Any attempt to bring back the dodo would have to deal with these ...

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 ...

The flightless bird, which grew up to 3 feet tall and weighed as much as 50 pounds, was unable to ward off black rats, wild pigs, macaque, and others in the 1600s due to laying only one egg per year.

Scientists have set the record straight on the scientific history of the dodo more than 300 years after the bird is thought to have gone extinct.

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 ...

Since they were flightless, they would build their nests on the ground and surround them with grass. The dodo population thrived until Dutch settlements started at Mauritius in 1638. As people began ...