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 ...

Once upon a time, the likes of Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg imagined a world where scientists on the cutting edge of genetic research pieced together bits of DNA, both ancient and modern, to ...

Until the 17th century, dodo birds were the kings of an island carved by a volcano in Mauritius. With no predators on the island, dodos never learned to develop their flight muscles. They didn’t need ...

David Attenborough comes face-to-face with a dodo, the first animal driven to extinction by humans. Sir David Attenborough comes face-to-face with the dodo, the first animal driven to extinction by ...

The dodo bird holds the unfortunate distinction of being arguably the best-known symbol of the Holocene extinction. Endowed with big bodies, miniscule wings, and short legs, these flightless icons ...

Sir David Attenborough comes face-to-face with the dodo, the first animal driven to extinction by humans in recorded history. In this extraordinary encounter, he reveals how this long-lost species has ...