Dodos never had the best reputation. The extinct, flightless birds are often labeled as slow, awkward, and incompetent. But that may soon change, as scientists have discovered dodos were stronger and ...

Centuries ago, Mauritius held a world unlike anything sailors expected to find. The island sat far from major travel routes, ...

The poster child of extinction is also one of the most misunderstood birds. We typically picture dodos as slow, stupid creatures. In fact, they were fast and powerful. Researchers from the University ...

According to a newly published study, the dodo was probably not as stupid as people believe. Using modern medical imaging techniques to create scans of the interior of a well-preserved dodo skull, a ...

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 ...

Dodos may have a reputation as the dunces of the bird world, but new research suggests they weren't just a flock of lunkheads. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a ...

Paleontologists have finally known that the last of the dodos, which has been kept in an Oxford museum, did not die of natural causes but by a gunshot. Researchers at Oxford University Museum of ...

The Dodo, Didus, is a bird that inhabits some of the islands of the East Indies. Its history is little known; but if the representation of it be at all just, this is the ugliest and most disgusting of ...

The dodo is among the most famous extinct creatures, and a poster child for human-caused extinction events. Despite its notoriety, and the fact that the species was alive during recorded human history ...

Since last being sighted in 1662, the dodo has become the symbol of extinction. But despite its fame, astonishingly little is known about this large, flightless bird. Scientists are attempting to ...

Has humanity learned its lesson after driving the dodo to extinction? With the environment and biodiversity still at risk, it doesn't seem so. The Oxford University Museum of Natural History is home ...