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

For a long time, nobody has really known how the Cuban blue-headed quail dove arrived on the island. But now, […] ...

The blue-headed quail dove is a uniquely ancient species with no close relatives and is now on the brink of extinction. At ...

What the dodo symbolizes has changed over time. It has been, variously, a parable, a joke and a warning. When we see it as an ...

Palaeognaths include emus and ostriches, and can reach 9 feet tall and weigh upwards of 300 pounds. They are more known for their brawn than their brains and often rely on their running speed and ...

Scientists at a Dallas, Texas-based company recently announced that they would be attempting to bring the dodo bird, which became ... environments by coming up with implausible jobs for ...

"This species is even more evolutionarily distinct than the dodo was ... some groups of birds that are spectacular dispersers, one being pigeons and doves. They just get up and go," Oswald ...

Over time these chicks will hatch, grow up, mate naturally and produce ... I'd love to do the dodo,' she added. The flightless bird was endemic to the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius before ...

Dr Anna Berenson has started a five-year project to perfect the process of creating one bird species from a close relative ...