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

Why was that so important? There is only one near-complete dodo skeleton that exists, consisting of bones from just one bird, and it has remained unstudied until the twenty-first century. It is ...

As well as the dodo, visitors will be able to talk to a narwhal skeleton, a red admiral butterfly, a fin whale skeleton, a cockroach, a stuffed red panda, a freeze-dried platypus and a giant sloth ...

The skeleton collection includes some of the Museum's oldest and ... some Atlantic islands and Puerto Rico - along with material of key taxa such as the dodo (Raphus cucullatus). The Museum's main ...