The dodo has long been portrayed as a clumsy and slow-witted bird, doomed to extinction due to its ineptitude. However, new ...

Julian Hume of the Natural History Museum ... quite a harsh period for the fauna - the reptiles and the birds on Mauritius." The dodo, which is related to the pigeon, evolved on Mauritius.

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 ...

The study leaned largely on a set of male and female solitaire bones housed at the Natural History Museum in London, and the most intact skeleton of an individual dodo, consisting of all the bird ...

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 ...

While “de-extinction science”, even if feasible, presents significant problems, getting rich celebrities to cough up millions ...