The next step was to compare the genetic information with the dodo’s closest bird relatives in the pigeon family — the living Nicobar pigeon, and the extinct Rodrigues solitaire, a giant ...

Languages: English, Spanish Scientists have set the record straight on the scientific history of the dodo more than 300 years after the bird is thought to have gone extinct. As detailed in a paper ...

Even the dodo’s name is rumored to have come from ... No one was really worried about preserving any information about it, until it was too late. It would take a new discovery in 2005 for ...

The dodo is one of the most iconic—and misunderstood ... historical accounts, and biological information into a single work providing clarification and revised taxonomic records.

(CNN)No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century.