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.

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 ...

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.

A rendering of a dodo in a forest. The last time the species was seen alive was in the 1600s, and now Colossal Biosciences says it will one day bring the birds back. Source: Colossal Biosciences ...

What the Dodo Bird Actually Looked Like. SHARE. Sir David Attenborough comes face-to-face with the dodo, the first animal driven to extinction by humans in recorded history.

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 ...