New CT scans of rare dodo skulls reveal how the extinct bird sensed its world and challenge myths about its intelligence.

Analysis of dodo bird skulls has helped scientists understand how they observed and interacted with the world before their ...

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 dodo has spent centuries as a punchline. Since it vanished from the island of Mauritius in the 1600s, the flightless bird ...

Learn how brain imprints on dodo skulls suggest that the flightless bird was exceptionally active and had a great sense of smell. The extinct dodo gets a bad rap as a scatterbrained bird, but it’s not ...

DALLAS — The dodo has been extinct for more than 300 years, but that isn’t stopping Dallas’ Colossal Biosciences from trying to resurrect the 3-foot-tall, flightless bird. On Wednesday, the ...

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 ...

Rotund, ground-dwelling and unafraid of humans to its own peril, the famed dodo bird became an icon of extinction when it disappeared from the island of Mauritius, and from Earth, in the 17th century, ...

WASHINGTON — The dodo bird isn’t coming back anytime soon. Nor is the woolly mammoth. But a company working on technologies to bring back extinct species has attracted more investors, while other ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

The dodo was an unusual bird. It's believed that the name "dodo" stems from the Dutch word "dodoor," meaning sluggish. However, in studying its anatomy, scientists think it could have run at fast ...