The bird that hatches from that egg will be a regular pigeon, but with one key difference: Its reproductive organs will ...

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 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 dodo was a flightless bird about the size of a male turkey that had a long, hooked beak and the goofy charm of an emperor penguin. Its ancestor first appeared on Earth more than 25 million ...

Efforts to shoehorn the Credit Card Competition Act into pieces of popular legislation need to be defeated. The proposed law ...

The dodo bird has been extinct since the 17th century. PA Images via Getty Images. For investors, the “de-extinction” effort is only part of the appeal.

The dodo is one of the most iconic—and misunderstood—extinct animals. Four hundred years after its extinction, the popular narrative remains that the flightless bird was simply too dumb, slow ...

None of us will ever see a dodo, but we can get to know the birds that still live among us. As Dickinson put it, “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers. ...

- This poor old bird is a dodo. It once lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. And it's almost certainly the first animal species that human beings actually exterminated in historic ...

Scientists have set the record straight on the scientific history of the dodo more than 300 years after the bird is thought to have gone extinct.

In real life, the dodo lost. After the Dutch settled its home, the island of Mauritius, in the 17th century, it took less then three decades for the bird, which laid only one egg a year, to go ...