The blue-headed quail dove is a uniquely ancient species with no close relatives and is now on the brink of extinction. At ...

What the dodo symbolizes has changed over time. It has been, variously, a parable, a joke and a warning. When we see it as an ...

One of the most infamous cautionary tales of humanity's follies, the reasons behind the extinction of the dodo are even more ...

How did one cat take out an entire species of bird in the 19th century? Dr Ross Barnett explains more about how human ...

Researchers sequenced the DNA of Cuban blue-headed quail dove, expecting clear origins. Instead, they found it has no close ...

For decades, this unassuming bird has perplexed biologists ... “This species is even more evolutionarily distinct than the dodo was,” Oswald said. The dodo was surprisingly also a type ...

Then, large sections of DNA from another ... I'd love to do the dodo,' she added. The flightless bird was endemic to the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius before it was hunted to extinction in ...