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

Why was that so important? There is only one near-complete dodo skeleton that exists, consisting of bones from just one bird, and it has remained unstudied until the twenty-first century. It is ...

Our bird skeleton collection, also called the avian osteology collection ... some Atlantic islands and Puerto Rico - along with material of key taxa such as the dodo (Raphus cucullatus). The Museum's ...

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 ...