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 ...

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