“It was there in front of me all the time, this icon of extinction ... For centuries, no one was sure what type of bird the dodo was. “This was a genuine mystery,” Shapiro said.

Sir David Attenborough comes face-to-face with the dodo, the first animal driven to extinction by humans in recorded history. In this extraordinary encounter, he reveals how this long-lost species has ...

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 ...