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

What the dodo symbolizes has changed over time. It has been, variously, a parable, a joke and a warning. When we see it as an ...

On first inspection, the Cuban blue-headed quail dove doesn't look like much: drab brown feathers, a slender beak, and a ...

Palaeognaths include emus and ostriches, and can reach 9 feet tall and weigh upwards of 300 pounds. They are more known for their brawn than their brains and often rely on their running speed and ...

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 dodo is one of the early entries on an already lengthy list of extinctions. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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 ...

Ancient DNA shows an endangered dove species endemic to Cuba is more genetically distinct than the dodo was before it died ... For decades, this unassuming bird has perplexed biologists, who ...