The dodo, a bird that humans hunted to extinction in ... an iconic "type specimen" for the dodo — meaning the single preserved specimen that serves as the reference for the species.

Early explorers to Rodrigues described a "Dodo" living ... and there are no preserved skins of the animal left. Studying these bones, scientists, including extinct bird expert Dr Julian Hume ...

Scientists are piecing together clues about the life of the dodo, hundreds of years after the flightless bird was driven to extinction. Few scientific facts are known about the hapless bird ...