Roelant Savery, the industrious Dutch Golden Age artist best known for his painting of the dodo bird, is the subject of a new exhibition at the Mauritshuis museum in the Hague, Netherlands. Titled ...

The detection happened in October and November near Uafato on Samoa’s island of Upolu. Manumea is a special bird for experts because it is deemed to be the closest relative of the legendary Dodo. Dodo ...

The name of the flightless dodo bird may today be synonymous with ineptitude (its scientific appellation is, after all, didus ineptus), but the 19th-century scramble to find the first fossil remains ...

The dodo's closest living relative, the Samoan manumea, was spotted alive in the wild, after being missing for years.

Representations of dodos may look hilariously gormless and their name is now synonymous with the likes of 'dolt' and 'boofhead'. But it seems the dodo's situation more aptly represents victim blaming ...

The dodo bird vanished more than 300 years ago, but its story still sparks curiosity. Native to just one island and wiped out in just a few decades, the dodo has become a symbol of extinction and ...

More than 99% of all species that have lived on Earth are now extinct, and we humans certainly have something to do with that. Yet there is an entire scientific discipline devoted to bringing some of ...