The dodo bird was big, flightless, and pretty good eating. All that helps explain why it went extinct around 1662, just 150 years after European sailing ships found Mauritius, the island in the ...

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 dodo has long been caricatured as a sluggish, dim-witted bird, emblematic of evolutionary failure. But recent work from ...

Instead, its legs were bulky, to support the bird’s great weight, but were considered tough and loathsome to eat. Still, he said, the dodo was not entirely unpalatable: The large, muscular ...

THE long-extinct dodo could be brought back from the dead by 2028, nearly 350 years after humans hunted them into extinction. Either that, or the long-lost Tasmanian tiger, the CEO of a landmark ge… ...

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 ...

The Mauritius Dodo more commonly just dodo, was a metre-high (three-foot) flightless bird of the island of Mauritius. The dodo, which is now extinct, lived on fruit and nested on the ground. The ...