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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...