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 ...

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 ...

Deep in a remote Samoan rainforest, field researchers have just confirmed something many biologists had quietly stopped expecting to see in their lifetimes: a living cousin of the Dodo, still clinging ...

Since last being sighted in 1662, the dodo has become the symbol of extinction. But despite its fame, astonishingly little is known about this large, flightless bird. Scientists are attempting to ...