One of the most infamous cautionary tales of humanity's follies, the reasons behind the extinction of the dodo are even more ...

This poor old bird is a dodo. It once lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. And it's almost certainly the first animal species that human beings actually exterminated in historic ...

The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless, found by 17th-century European sailors on the island of ...

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 ...

Scientists at a Dallas, Texas-based company recently announced that they would be attempting to bring the dodo bird, which became extinct in 1681, back to life with a process called de-extinction.

A similar approach is being used to revive the dodo bird by altering the genes of the Nicobar pigeon, the dodo's closest surviving relative. High-profile support and growing public interest The ...