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 ...

Centuries ago, Mauritius held a world unlike anything sailors expected to find. The island sat far from major travel routes, and its wildlife evolved without outside pressure. The dodo lived at the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Flightless birds, like the dodo bird of the small Indian ...

The dodo is often viewed as the classic example of extinction and obsolescence. However, the truth is that countless species have met similar fates. Here’s one bird whose epoch ended much in the same ...

The dodo bird holds the unfortunate distinction of being arguably the best-known symbol of the Holocene extinction. Endowed with big bodies, miniscule wings, and short legs, these flightless icons ...