Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The tooth-billed pigeon, often dubbed the "little dodo," is one of the most elusive birds in the world. There are fewer than 100 ...

Conservationists worldwide have been trying to reinvigorate many species. For this purpose, several masterful tools have been developed, like the bioacoustics technology by The Colossal Foundation and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Deep in a remote Samoan rainforest, field researchers have just confirmed something many biologists had quietly stopped expecting to see in their lifetimes: a living cousin of the Dodo, still clinging ...

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 ...