The dodo bird (Raphus cucullatus) is one of history's most famous cautionary tales: a flightless bird that vanished forever because of human recklessness. For centuries, the standard narrative has ...

Meanwhile, dogs, cats, and other invasive animals preyed on the birds themselves while also competing for the island’s limited food sources. By 1662, the dodo was done.

The dodo bones show repeated lines of arrested growth, which the researchers suggest correspond to the harsh conditions of the summer months when the birds were starved of food. The scientists then ...

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.

You have never seen the dodo bird in your lifetime. Driven to extinction by humans on the island of Mauritius in 1692, the species has become a thing of legend. It could soon be brought back to lif… ...

According to a digital 3D model of the bird Hume developed based on a skeleton from the Durban Natural Science Museum in South Africa, the dodo once stood around 70 centimeters (2.3 feet) tall and ...

The dodo is also a new direction in a biological sense, in that it's a bird. In mammals, things like cloning, gene editing, and other manipulations are done all the time and have been used ...