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

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 ...

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 ...

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