The fossil record is now revealing more about the dodo’s life history than we’ve ever known. The dodo lived close to the coast and on offshore islets, as well as in the lowlands and mountains, ...
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 extinct dodo might be coming back.On October 14, 2026, the American biotech company Colossal Biosciences announced new ...
To "go the way of the dodo" could come to mean something very different if Colossal Biosciences has its way. The Texas startup—founded in 2021 and bent on seeing the "de-extinction" of certain species ...
The Mauritian dodo—a global symbol of human-caused extinction and one of the world's largest pigeons—may not have deserved its reputation as a silly simpleton and may have been the only member of its ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Flightless birds, like the dodo bird of the small Indian ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist depiction of what a night-active dodo might look like. Despite historical portrayals, the dodo was a relatively intelligent ...
The dodo is often viewed as the classic example of extinction and obsolescence. However, the truth is that countless species have met similar fates. Here’s one bird whose epoch ended much in the same ...
The slaty-masked tinamou, recently discovered in Brazil, is utterly unafraid of people. That could be its undoing, ornithologists worry. By Joe Trezza Rotund, ground-dwelling and unafraid of humans to ...