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 ...

Scientists are piecing together clues about the life of the dodo, hundreds of years after the flightless bird was driven to extinction. Few scientific facts are known about the hapless bird ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the 1850s, British naturalist Charles Darwin proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection. In his book, On the ...

That's right, scientists are in the process of trying to help the dodo bird return from extinction. TenHaveCM Colossal Biosciences, the world's first "de-extinction company" is on a mission to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...