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 ...

A biotech startup is taking the first real steps towards bringing the dodo bird back from extinction. No one has seen this bird since the late 17th century, but that doesn't mean it has been forgotten ...

This bird is totally crazy-looking, and it is an opera singer,” says a biologist from Colombia and an expert on Neotropical birds. “It has a voice like no other..." ...

Researchers are setting out to challenge our misconceptions about the Dodo, one of the most well-known but poorly understood species of bird. In a paper published today [16 August 2024] in 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 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 ...

The slaty-masked tinamou, recently discovered in Brazil, is utterly unafraid of people. That could be its undoing, ornithologists worry. By Joe Trezza Rotund, ground-dwelling and unafraid of humans to ...

Where dis the Dodo live and what's it's environment like ? When Dutch sailors first explored the Indian Ocean, they encountered two birds unlike any seen elsewhere – the dodo and the solitaire. Both ...

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 ...

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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 ...