But to work out exactly how the dodo moved, we need to know these exact measurements. Then we can work out how the muscles worked inside the body. The dodo was a giant ground pigeon, unlike anything ...

Two male Rodrigues solitaires fight over a female in the background using club-like wings The extinct Dodo had a little-known ... Getty Images The Victoria crowned pigeon is the biggest living ...

including the Nicobar pigeon and the Rodrigues solitaire, which is another species of extinct flightless bird. So, the dodo ...

an extinct giant flightless pigeon, to figure out the mutations that "make a dodo a dodo," Beth Shapiro, a lead geneticist on the project, told CNN. Shapiro says the ultimate plan would be to ...