The dodo's closest living relative, the Samoan manumea, was spotted alive in the wild, after being missing for years.

The detection happened in October and November near Uafato on Samoa’s island of Upolu. Manumea is a special bird for experts ...

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 ...

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 1600s, ...

Scientists have set the record straight on the scientific history of the dodo more than 300 years after the bird is thought to have gone extinct. As detailed in a paper published in the Zoological ...

Now that a “de-extinction” company says it has revived the dire wolf species that was extinct for over 10,000 years, could dinosaurs and the woolly mammoth be next? What about the dodo bird? The ...

What’s the real story of the dodo? How did such a unique bird even evolve in the first place? And are we really responsible for its extinction? Eons is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS ...