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 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 ...

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 University of Cambridge's Museum of Zoology has chosen 13 specimens for the conversations, including the extinct flightless bird the dodo, narwhal and blue fin whale skeletons, a red panda and ...

To that end, the Tasmanian tiger, which went extinct in the early 1980s, would take “just weeks” to revive, and the dodo bird, last seen ... look like one, sound like one, but most importantly ...

The weather is set to ease in Southland as MetService changes its warning from red to yellow. Wrongfully convicted Gail Maney has had her conviction quashed. Kiwi film-maker Sir Peter Jackson has ...

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 ...