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. The arrival ...

The poster child of extinction is also one of the most misunderstood birds. We typically picture dodos as slow, stupid creatures. In fact, they were fast and powerful. Researchers from the University ...

Centuries ago, Mauritius held a world unlike anything sailors expected to find. The island sat far from major travel routes, and its wildlife evolved without outside pressure. The dodo lived at the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The dodo is an extinct flightless bird whose name has become synonymous with stupidity. But it turns out that the dodo was no bird brain, but instead a reasonably brainy bird.

The dodo wasn’t as daffy a duck as we once thought. Despite their dim reputation, evolutionary biologists have learned that the infamously extinct bird, hunted out of existence by humans in the 1600s, ...

Back in early 2023, the dodo's genome was sequenced from a DNA sample. Now the company trying to resurrect the long-extinct ...

The dodo bird vanished more than 300 years ago, but its story still sparks curiosity. Native to just one island and wiped out in just a few decades, the dodo has become a symbol of extinction and ...

Researchers are setting out to challenge our misconceptions about the Dodo, one of the most well-known but poorly understood species of bird. Researchers have undertaken the most comprehensive review ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Flightless birds, like the dodo bird of the small Indian ...

The name of the flightless dodo bird may today be synonymous with ineptitude (its scientific appellation is, after all, didus ineptus), but the 19th-century scramble to find the first fossil remains ...

Colossal Biosciences says it has taken a large leap forward in bringing the extinct dodo bird back to life. On Wednesday, Sept. 17, the bioengineering company announced a scientific breakthrough in ...