What the dodo symbolizes has changed over time. It has been, variously, a parable, a joke and a warning. When we see it as an ...

One of the most infamous cautionary tales of humanity's follies, the reasons behind the extinction of the dodo are even more ...

On first inspection, the Cuban blue-headed quail dove doesn't look like much: drab brown feathers, a slender beak, and a ...

Dodos (Raphus cucullatus) went extinct as a direct result of European colonization in Mauritius.(Image credit: Daniel Eskridge/Stocktrek Images via Getty Images) The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) was a ...

How did one cat take out an entire species of bird in the 19th century? Dr Ross Barnett explains more about how human ...

The dodo is one of the early entries on an already lengthy list of extinctions. Read more at straitstimes.com.

But the farmyard chicken has emerged as an unlikely lynchpin in the research to protect its endangered wild cousins – and even bring extinct species like the dodo back to life. Scientists at New ...

Researchers sequenced the DNA of Cuban blue-headed quail dove, expecting clear origins. Instead, they found it has no close ...

The dodo was surprisingly also a type of dove, and it had at least one close relative that we know of, the Rodrigues solitaire, which is now also extinct. No one knows how old the dove family is ...

Dr Anna Berenson has started a five-year project to perfect the process of creating one bird species from a close relative ...

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