Experts in the U.K. have uncovered new details about a famous 17th-century Dodo that challenge a long-held theory about the unfortunate flightless bird. The “Oxford Dodo” at the University of Oxford’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - The dodo is an extinct flightless bird whose name has become synonymous with stupidity. But it turns out that the dodo was no bird brain, but instead a reasonably brainy ...

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 ...

Is it possible that the dodo bird has been unfairly affiliated with stupidity all this time? New research released by the American Museum of Natural History says signs point to “yes.” The team ...

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 ...

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 ...

Composed of bones of various dodo specimens found on the bird's past home of Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean, the skeleton was assembled in the 19th century. The famous flightless birds went extinct in ...

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 ...