The dodo was a heavyset, gray-brown bird with tiny wings, strong legs and a large beak. It stood up to 27 inches (70 centimeters) tall and weighed 28 to 45 pounds (13 to 20 kilograms), according ...

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

Experts in the U.K. have uncovered new details about a famous 17th-century Dodo that challenge a long-held theory about the unfortunate flightless bird.

Most of you know the story of the dodo bird, a very large (30 to 50 pounds!), flightless bird which went extinct a long time ago. Found on the island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar in the Indian ...

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When it comes to extinct creatures, few are as commonly known as the dodo. But when it comes to the dodo, few facts have been established about how the flightless birds lived. A new study of the ...

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 ...