Who killed the dodo that likely inspired author Lewis Carroll to create the dodo character in his 1865 book "Alice in Wonderland ... researchers examined this dodo's DNA and found that the bird ...

Some 350 years ago, this famous bird met a grisly end and was subsequently kept in Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, where it inspired Lewis Carroll to include a dodo character in Alice in Wonderland.

A DNA test on the mummified bird that helped to inspire Alice in Wonderland has revealed that the dodo was actually a pigeon. According to a study published today in the journal Science, the Alice ...

The extinct flightless pigeon has captured imaginations for over 400 years. Experts and artists are now revealing how much we have distorted what the dodo was really like.

Experts in the U.K. have uncovered new details about a famous 17th-century Dodo that challenge a long-held theory about the unfortunate flightless bird. ... Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. ...

The dodo has since become fixed in society’s imagination as the very emblem of ineptitude, an evolutionary clown — an impression greatly helped by the bird’s appearance in “Alice’s ...

Lewis Carroll’s beloved 1865 novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has inspired countless retellings on screens both big and the small — each one curiouser than the last — and this ...

In honor of the animated classic's legacy, here are some of the unique denizens of Wonderland that Alice encounters on her grand misadventure, from the weirdest to the wonderful.

A DNA test on the mummified bird that helped to inspire Alice in Wonderland has revealed that the dodo was actually a pigeon. According to a study published today in the journal Science, the Alice ...