The dodo bird (Raphus cucullatus ... Portuguese and Dutch sailors arrived on the island of Mauritius in the 1600s, found a ...

AS we drove around beautiful Mauritius, I was intrigued by the images of a bird in malls, shops, parks and on signboards.

eggs and young - than of a bird that disappeared relatively recently due to human interference. The dodo lived solely in Mauritius and we know it was extinct by around 1680, less than 100 years after ...

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 ...

PATA chair Peter Semone discusses the need to rethink tourism success in the Asia-Pacific, calling for a shift from ...

Flightless birds have had a rough go of it over the past few centuries, with many going extinct — the most iconic being the ...

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 ...

Flightless birds, like the dodo bird of the small Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, have had a rough go of it over the past several hundred years – with many species having gone extinct. Here’s the ...