In 2002, scientists at Oxford were able to pull out genetic samples, including DNA, from the specimen so that they could ...

In real life, the dodo lost. After the Dutch settled its home, the island of Mauritius, in the 17th century, it took less then three decades for the bird, which laid only one egg a year, to go ...

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 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 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 ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century.

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 ...

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The dodo, a three feet tall bird weighing up to 39 pounds, used to live on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius before becoming extinct.