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. The arrival ...

The dodo’s extinction is often reduced to a simple story of overhunting. The truth is more complex. Isolated on Mauritius for thousands of years, the dodo evolved without natural predators. When ...

DALLAS — The place where the dead may be brought back to life is a drab, single-story building in an office park next to a ...

The name of the flightless dodo bird may today be synonymous with ineptitude (its scientific appellation is, after all, didus ineptus), but the 19th-century scramble to find the first fossil remains ...