The first illustrations of the dodo were by mariners visiting Mauritius - they showed a slim, athletic bird. Over the following decades the image changed. Each illustrator wanted to make it bigger, ...

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 ...

Since the children’s book is a work of fiction, perhaps you may have thought that the dodo bird itself was also spun from the ...