The bones of adult birds also show signs of mineral loss, which suggests that they lost old damaged feathers after the breeding season. Ancient mariners gave conflicting accounts of the dodo ...

Colonisation also brought new species to the island, such as rats, dogs, cats and pigs, which all contributed to the extinction of the flightless dodo A femur bone from the extinct bird the dodo ...

Stories from refugee children, gloriously morbid puppets and a rooster who defies a dictator. These are some of the offbeat ...

Avian palaeontologist Dr Julian Hume is rediscovering the dodo by introducing old bones to new technology. Julian explains what went wrong for the dodo, why artists exaggerate and which other ...

“From its appearance in Alice in Wonderland to the expression ‘dead as dodo’, the bird has cemented its place in our cultural heritage,” he added. REMAINS OF THE BIRD: The femur bone ...

Since the children’s book is a work of fiction, perhaps you may have thought that the dodo bird itself was also spun from the ...