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 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 1600s, ...

A model of a dodo (Raphus cucullatus), a flightless bird found only on the island of Mauritius until it went extinct in the 1600s. Hunting, habitat loss and the human introduction of egg-eating rats ...

What happened to the last Dodo bird? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answer by Stefan Pociask, ...