Palaeognaths include emus and ostriches, and can reach 9 feet tall and weigh upwards of 300 pounds. They are more known for ...

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 ...

Sir David Attenborough comes face-to-face with the dodo, the first animal driven to extinction by humans in recorded history. In this extraordinary encounter, he reveals how this long-lost species has ...

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 ...

As explained previously, the woolly mammoth has the potential to not just be a symbol ... of de-extinction. The dodo, a flightless bird native to Mauritius, went extinct in the late 1600s due ...

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.