For Shapiro, it’s not just about the dodo. The scientific breakthroughs ... which laid only one egg a year, to go extinct. The odd, flightless bird didn’t fear humans, who clubbed it for ...

This poor old bird is a dodo. It once lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. And it's almost certainly the first animal species that human beings actually exterminated in historic ...

Innovative advances in DNA sequencing are making it possible to revive extinct bird species like the dodo, great auk, ...

Now, scientific breakthroughs are providing an opportunity to rectify our blunders. Efforts to de-extinct the dodo bird are underway. Conservationists and scientists not only can but should follow ...

A rare fragment of a Dodo femur bone is displayed for photographs next to an image of a member of the extinct bird species at Christie's auction house's premises in London, March 27, 2013.