For centuries, the dodo has stood as a symbol of the delicacy of nature and how easily diversity can be lost, but what if the dodo was still with us?

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 ...

The poster child of extinction is also one of the most misunderstood birds. We typically picture dodos as slow, stupid creatures. In fact, they were fast and powerful. Researchers from the University ...

Colossal Biosciences says it has taken a large leap forward in bringing the extinct dodo bird back to life. On Wednesday, Sept. 17, the bioengineering company announced a scientific breakthrough in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Flightless birds, like the dodo bird of the small Indian ...

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 remains ...

The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History invites visitors to explore two chapters in the story of life on Earth — one ...