One of the most infamous cautionary tales of humanity's follies, the reasons behind the extinction of the dodo are even more depressing than you may realize.

The blue-headed quail dove is a uniquely ancient species with no close relatives and is now on the brink of extinction. At ...

The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless, found by 17th-century European sailors on the island of ...

The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird – fat and flightless, found by 17th-century European sailors on the island of ...

Ancient DNA shows an endangered dove species endemic to Cuba is more genetically distinct than the dodo was before it died ... For decades, this unassuming bird has perplexed biologists, who ...

Researchers sequenced the DNA of Cuban blue-headed quail dove, expecting clear origins. Instead, they found it has no close ...

How did one cat take out an entire species of bird in the 19th century? Dr Ross Barnett explains more about how human ...