In real life, the dodo lost. After the Dutch settled its home, the island of Mauritius, in the 17th century, it took less then three decades for the bird, which laid only one egg a year ...

Dr Anna Berenson has started a five-year project to perfect the process of creating one bird species from a close relative ...

Before humans interfered, they were able to maintain a steady population even though a dodo bird laid only one egg per year. Several species were introduced on the island, including rats ...

They do this by taking cells from the domestic chicken – specifically the ones that will eventually develop into sperm or egg cells ... do the dodo,' she added. The flightless bird was ...