What if I told you that animals that have long been extinct could be making a comeback? That's right, scientists are in the ...

which is another species of extinct flightless bird. So, the dodo won’t be an exact clone but rather a species with edited ...

Two male Rodrigues solitaires fight over a female in the background using club-like wings The extinct Dodo had a little-known relative on another island. This fascinating bird ultimately suffered ...

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 ...

The chances of seeing an animal resembling the woolly mammoth one day are slim — but not entirely impossible. This outlandish ...

The proportion of 216 bird species globally extinct or likely lost since 1500 ... hunted to extinction in part for food, including the Dodo, Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis), and Spectacled ...

More is known about the dinosaurs - their population structure, nesting behaviour, eggs and young - than of a bird that disappeared relatively recently due to human interference. The dodo lived solely ...

Finally, species with big bodies were overly represented on the extinct list. "Heavier birds have been more likely to be targeted for hunting, with several well-known examples of birds being hunted to ...

Well versed in natural history, particularly geology and ornithology, Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811–53) became fascinated by the dodo and mankind's influence on its extinction. Seeking to investigate ...

While some of these findings mirror previous research on extinct birds, they are the first to ... including the dodo, great auk (Pinguinus impennis), and spectacled cormorant (Urile perspicillatus ...