Deep in a remote Samoan rainforest, field researchers have just confirmed something many biologists had quietly stopped ...

The manumea, a critically endangered ground pigeon and one of the closest living dodo relatives, has been spotted multiple ...

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

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 ...

(CNN) — An audacious collaboration between geneticists and conservationists plans to bring back the extinct dodo and reintroduce it to its once-native habitat in Mauritius. US-based biotechnology and ...

David Attenborough comes face-to-face with a dodo, the first animal driven to extinction by humans. Sir David Attenborough comes face-to-face with the dodo, the first animal driven to extinction by ...

Once upon a time, the likes of Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg imagined a world where scientists on the cutting edge of genetic research pieced together bits of DNA, both ancient and modern, to ...

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 ...

David Beck, “Untitled (Dodo with Interior Dodo Diorama)” (1977), mixed media, carved and painted wood, glass, and feathers, 21 x 14 x 27 inches (all images courtesy the artist and Allan Stone Projects ...

Drama Desk and Obie award-winning international theatre company Wakka Wakka will return to New York with the local premiere of Dead as a Dodo, presented in association with Baruch PAC and in ...