A comprehensive review of dodo science offers new insights into the biology and behavior of the much-ridiculed bird.

Scientists are piecing together clues about the life of the dodo, hundreds of years after the flightless bird was driven to extinction. Few scientific facts are known about the hapless bird ...

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 ...

Two male Rodrigues solitaires fight over a female in the background using club-like wings The extinct Dodo had a little-known relative on another island. This fascinating bird ultimately suffered ...

You might have noted that I referred to this as the tie score effect and that I began today’s discussion by calling this the Dodo bird verdict or Dodo bird conjecture. Let’s see why that ...

Shapiro was able to show the dodo's closest living relative was the Nicobar pigeon - a brightly coloured bird from which it diverged 43 million years ago. And Shapiro says she now plans to edit ...

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 ...

LONG-GONE species like the woolly mammoth, Tasmanian tiger, and dodo bird could return from the dead as part of a "de-extinction" campaign. The term "extinct" brings to mind ancient heavy-hitters ...

A thought-provoking image of thousands of birds killed by colliding with the windows of high-rise buildings took the 2024 ...

The dodo was a flightless bird about the size of a male turkey that had a long, hooked beak and the goofy charm of an emperor penguin. Its ancestor first appeared on Earth more than 25 million ...