A comprehensive review of dodo science offers new insights into the biology and behavior of the much-ridiculed bird.

Scientists are piecing together clues about the life of the dodo, hundreds of years after the flightless bird was driven to extinction. Few scientific facts are known about the hapless bird ...

The dodo has long been portrayed as a clumsy and slow-witted bird, doomed to extinction due to its ineptitude. However, new ...

The name of the flightless dodo bird may today be synonymous with ineptitude (its scientific appellation is, after all, didus ineptus), but the 19th-century scramble to find the first fossil ...

You might have noted that I referred to this as the tie score effect and that I began today’s discussion by calling this the Dodo bird verdict or Dodo bird conjecture. Let’s see why that ...

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 ...

Two male Rodrigues solitaires fight over a female in the background using club-like wings The extinct Dodo had a little-known relative on another island. This fascinating bird ultimately suffered ...

The dodo bird, often depicted as a slow, chubby creature doomed to extinction, has long been misunderstood. However, new research published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society challenges ...

a Dodo bird appears and brings her to the land of extinct animals. The audiences will be part of this vibrant and enchanting musical journey, including various kinds of puppet performances through ...

Well versed in natural history, particularly geology and ornithology, Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811–53) became fascinated by the dodo and mankind's influence on its extinction. Seeking to investigate ...