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 ...

Florilegius/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The dodo’s evolutionary prominence came as the first species extinction ever observed by humans in real ... bird had too comfortable a life ...

Sir David Attenborough comes face-to-face with the dodo ... birds over the years, and this one doesn't quite ring true. An examination of the way its thighs join its pelvis has shown that in life ...

Both birds were well adapted to their isolated habitats. The dodo’s large bill had a hooked tip that appears to have been its only real defense. (One 17th-century seaman called the dodo’s beak ...

"More has been written about the Dodo than any other bird, yet virtually nothing is known about it in life," says Dr Julian ... come back from the dead, real and tangible for people to touch ...

University of Southampton "The dodo will be central to this because, despite being one of the most widely written about birds, there is remarkably little known about [its] life and behaviors.

The dodo is one of the most iconic—and misunderstood—extinct animals. Four hundred years after its extinction, the popular narrative remains that the flightless bird was simply too dumb ...