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.

Group Nine Media, owner of the Dodo animal-video brand, has taken a stake in Petplan, the animal insurer. The venture will be rebranded as ‘Fetch by The Dodo’ next year.

The dodo wasn’t as daffy a duck as we once thought. Despite their dim reputation, evolutionary biologists have learned that the infamously extinct bird, hunted out of existence by humans in the ...

For Shapiro, doing the dodo justice means making sure it has a home to go to. Last year, she took a trip with one of her sons ...

The dodo lived in Mauritius for 25 million years but, along with the solitaire on Rodrigues, was gone in less than 100 years of meeting humans," he said.

And so now we talk about being 'as dead as a dodo.' But in spite of its fame, this one is a fake. Its feathers come from a goose. Its feet were modeled on a turkey and its beak, I suspect, is plaster.

The dodo was mocked by Portuguese and Dutch colonialists for its size and apparent lack of fear of armed, hungry hunters. The project aims to reconstruct the dodo ecosystem. It took its name from the ...

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. Now, a ...

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.