Since the children’s book is a work of fiction, perhaps you may have thought that the dodo bird itself was also spun from the imagination of a creative writer. And you wouldn’t be alone.

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 ...

Two male Rodrigues solitaires fight over a female in the background using club-like wings The extinct Dodo had a little-known relative on another island. This fascinating bird ultimately suffered ...

Shapiro was able to show the dodo's closest living relative was the Nicobar pigeon - a brightly coloured bird from which it diverged 43 million years ago. And Shapiro says she now plans to edit ...

The dodo was a flightless bird that lived on the island nation of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. It is a case study of extinction caused by humans. The dodo had adapted to its isolated ecosystem ...

THE long-extinct dodo could be brought back from the dead by 2028, nearly 350 years after humans hunted them into extinction. Either that, or the long-lost Tasmanian tiger, the CEO of a landmark ...

Julian explains what went wrong for the dodo, why artists exaggerate and which other forgotten species died out alongside the bird. Despite its relatively recent extinction, the life history of the ...

You might have noted that I referred to this as the tie score effect and that I began today’s discussion by calling this the Dodo bird verdict or Dodo bird conjecture. Let’s see why that ...

Kiwi film-maker Sir Peter Jackson has invested $10 million towards a start-up company aimed at reviving extinct animals such as the dodo bird. The original species is “dead as a dodo” as the ...