A must-visit is Aapravasi Ghat, a Unesco World Heritage site that served as an immigration depot during the 19th century. It ...

The dodo, which is related to the pigeon, evolved on Mauritius. However, bone samples are rare, making it difficult to trace the evolutionary process. Although many specimens of the dodo ended up ...

The Mauritian Rum Festival consists of a charming semicircle of stalls, laid out like a tipsy car boot sale. Wandering ...

The dodo was a heavily-built flightless ... introduction of new predators by people. Dodos lived on Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean. The island was uninhabited and the birds had no ...

The dodo is historically ... They shared Mauritius with bats, lizards, giant tortoises, and other birds. The closest large predators were held back by about 800 kilometers of ocean, so getting ...

The Government of Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer agreed Thursday to hand over sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory Chagos Islands to Mauritius after two years of talks to bring ...

So beautiful it should be signed up by a modelling agency, Mauritius is perhaps the most ravishing island in the Indian Ocean ... bird of Mauritius is the dodo, which was once endemic to the ...