A bird that vanished more than 300 years ago is offering new clues about how it once lived. Researchers have taken a rare look inside one of the only complete dodo skulls in the world, revealing ...

The Mauritian dodo—a global symbol of human-caused extinction and one of the world's largest pigeons—may not have deserved its reputation as a silly simpleton and may have been the only member of its ...

Image of spinning CT scanned dodo skull (specimen OUMNH-ZC-11605 - the “Oxford Dodo”) made transparent, with brain visible. Credit: University of Lethbridge Some call the dodo—a large, flightless bird ...

The slaty-masked tinamou, recently discovered in Brazil, is utterly unafraid of people. That could be its undoing, ornithologists worry. By Joe Trezza Rotund, ground-dwelling and unafraid of humans to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist depiction of what a night-active dodo might look like. Despite historical portrayals, the dodo was a relatively intelligent ...

Learn how brain imprints on dodo skulls suggest that the flightless bird was exceptionally active and had a great sense of smell. The extinct dodo gets a bad rap as a scatterbrained bird, but it’s not ...

Many people first hear about the dodo bird when reading Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” where a solemn yet silly dodo organizes a ridiculous race to help everyone dry off after a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have used rare skull scans to uncover how the dodo saw, smelled, and interacted with its environment before extinction.