She took leave from a cushy university gig last year to become chief science ... For centuries, no one was sure what type of bird the dodo was. “This was a genuine mystery,” Shapiro said.

Because they had no enemies on the island, the wingless birds were easy prey when humans arrived in the early 16th century. Although the exact date is uncertain, people believe the last dodo bird ...

The birds’ girth — a dodo could easily weigh 50 pounds — helped ... the dodos didn’t last long. The last dodos were killed before 1700. At that time, humanity could not easily conceive ...

Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless, found by 17th ...

The dodo was a flightless bird that lived on the island nation of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. It is a case study of extinction caused by humans. The dodo had adapted to its isolated ecosystem ...

Movie"On the island of Reunion, Lunet and his grandfather Dadabé set on a quest to turn a hen into a dodo bird, whose magic feathers might save the boy’s seriously ill mother." On the island of ...

Julian explains what went wrong for the dodo, why artists exaggerate and which other forgotten species died out alongside the bird. Despite its relatively recent extinction, the life history of the ...

Scientists at a Dallas, Texas-based company recently announced that they would be attempting to bring the dodo bird, which became extinct in 1681, back to life with a process called de-extinction.