One of the most infamous cautionary tales of humanity's follies, the reasons behind the extinction of the dodo are even more ...

The museum can be forgiven because no skin or feathers of the dodo survive. Its image was influenced by pictures like this one painted by a 17th century Dutch artist, Roland Savery. But he had ...

The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless, found by 17th-century European sailors on the island of ...

The dodo was a heavily-built flightless bird ... When Mauritius was colonised by the Dutch in 1638, dodos were hunted for food. They were easy to catch and new competitors were brought onto ...