One of the most infamous cautionary tales of humanity's follies, the reasons behind the extinction of the dodo are even more ...

How did one cat take out an entire species of bird in the 19th century? Dr Ross Barnett explains more about how human ...

What the dodo symbolizes has changed over time. It has been, variously, a parable, a joke and a warning. When we see it as an ...

So, how did the bird’s population decline so quickly? Dodo birds are native to the tropical island of Mauritius. It was a secluded paradise with plenty of resources, so the birds really had no ...

The dodo lived solely in Mauritius and we know it was extinct by around 1680, less than 100 years after humans inhabited its island home. But we don't know exactly how it got there in the first place, ...

The dodo is one of the early entries on an already lengthy list of extinctions. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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 ...