But despite outward similarities to the iconic Mauritian bird, this wasn't in fact a Dodo, but the Rodrigues solitaire. If you look up Rodrigues in satellite images, you can see a huge ring of ...

It’s bizarre to think that they ceased to exist less than one hundred years after showing up in historical records. So, how ...

The dodo had downy grey feathers with a white tail plume. The backside of the dodo was believed to have a tuft of lightly coloured feathers ...

The research relates to one of the more controversial ideas in psychotherapy research – the Dodo bird conjecture. Named after a bird in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland which sent several characters ...

Dodo bones are part of a collection of memorabilia which is up for auction in West Sussex. Late naturalist Ralfe Whistler's shrine to the extinct birds will be sold at Summers Place Auctions in ...

Seeking to investigate this flightless bird and other extinct species from islands in the ... A seminal work, it correctly concluded that the dodo was more closely related to pigeons than vultures, ...

Julian explains what went wrong for the dodo, why artists exaggerate and which other forgotten species died out alongside the bird. Despite its relatively recent extinction, the life history of the ...