The Mauritian dodo—a global symbol of human-caused extinction and one of the world's largest pigeons—may not have deserved its reputation as a silly simpleton and may have been the only member of its ...

The dodo is often viewed as the classic example of extinction and obsolescence. However, the truth is that countless species have met similar fates. Here’s one bird whose epoch ended much in the same ...

CT scans and digital endocasts of rare dodo skulls suggest the extinct bird had a brain broadly comparable in relative size to living pigeons, challenging its centuries-old reputation as unusually ...

For centuries, the dodo has been the butt of jokes, its name becoming shorthand for anyone considered dim-witted, hopeless or destined to fail. But it turns out the famously ‘stupid’ bird may have ...

DALLAS — The dodo has been extinct for more than 300 years, but that isn’t stopping Dallas’ Colossal Biosciences from trying to resurrect the 3-foot-tall, flightless bird. On Wednesday, the ...

Many people first hear about the dodo bird when reading Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” where a solemn yet silly dodo organizes a ridiculous race to help everyone dry off after a ...

Image of spinning CT scanned dodo skull (specimen OUMNH-ZC-11605 - the “Oxford Dodo”) made transparent, with brain visible. Credit: University of Lethbridge Some call the dodo—a large, flightless bird ...