In 2002, scientists at Oxford were able to pull out genetic samples, including DNA, from the specimen so that they could ...

For centuries, no one was sure what type of bird the dodo was. “This was a genuine mystery,” Shapiro said. After proving herself with ancient DNA work on other birds, Shapiro persuaded 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.

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 ...

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.