This funny, dumpy creature is how the bird is ... and some experts suggest that it made a pigeon-like call, which gave the bird its name. The dodo probably fed on fruit. There was a lot of it ...

Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless, found by 17th ...