The canary in the purple coal mine.

The dodo’s extinction is often reduced to a simple story of overhunting. The truth is more complex. Isolated on Mauritius for thousands of years, the dodo evolved without natural predators. When ...

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 name of the flightless dodo bird may today be synonymous with ineptitude (its scientific appellation is, after all, didus ineptus), but the 19th-century scramble to find the first fossil remains ...