Birds stunning feats of travel are awe-inspiring, making it that much more tragic when they are cut short by a deadly ...

This poor old bird is a dodo. It once lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. And it's almost certainly the first animal species that human beings actually exterminated in historic ...

Inside, between rows of incubators and microscopes, Beth Shapiro and her team are attempting a feat straight out of science fiction: reviving the dodo, a bird that ... there in front of me ...

The weather is set to ease in Southland as MetService changes its warning from red to yellow. Wrongfully convicted Gail Maney has had her conviction quashed. Kiwi film-maker Sir Peter Jackson has ...

Lord of the Rings director Peter Robert Jackson has put $10 million toward a Texas startup company aimed at reviving extinct animals such as the dodo bird. The New Zealand-born filmmaker ...

The dodo was a flightless bird about the size of a male turkey that had a long, hooked beak and the goofy charm of an emperor penguin. Its ancestor first appeared on Earth more than 25 million ...

A comprehensive review of dodo science offers new insights into the biology and behavior of the much-ridiculed bird. A comprehensive review of dodo science offers new insights into the biology and ...

the researchers have now challenged the widely held view that the dodo was a slow, bloated animal doomed to extinction. Instead, they have said, they may have been fast-moving birds that thrived ...

The dodo is one of the most iconic—and misunderstood—extinct animals. Four hundred years after its extinction, the popular narrative remains that the flightless bird was simply too dumb ...

The dodo wasn’t as daffy a duck as we once thought. Despite their dim reputation, evolutionary biologists have learned that the infamously extinct bird, hunted out of existence by humans in the ...