I'd always hurry through the bird gallery to get to the insects beyond (dead insects are nearly as good as live ones). However, one particular avian exhibit would always slow me down. As mythical ...

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 ...

For centuries, no one was sure what type of bird the dodo was. “This was a genuine ... Could people safely live alongside revived beasts as big as a mammoth? And couldn’t the money be better ...

The dodo and passenger pigeon are among extinct bird ­species that could be brought back to life thanks to gene editing and cross-breeding. A new US project aims to use the humble chicken to revive ...

Dr Anna Berenson has started a five-year project to perfect the process of creating one bird species from a close relative ...

The dodo, a flightless bird native to Mauritius, went extinct in the late 1600s due to overhunting and habitat destruction. Reviving it could serve as a case study in restoring island ecosystems ...

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 ...

You might have noted that I referred to this as the tie score effect and that I began today’s discussion by calling this the Dodo bird verdict or Dodo bird conjecture. Let’s see why that ...

Scientists at a Dallas, Texas-based company recently announced that they would be attempting to bring the dodo bird, which became extinct in 1681, back to life with a process called de-extinction.