This bird is totally crazy-looking, and it is an opera singer,” says a biologist from Colombia and an expert on Neotropical ...

Key breakthrough for the return of the dodo: viable cells have been obtained and genetically modified birds have been prepared.

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 ...

Centuries ago, Mauritius held a world unlike anything sailors expected to find. The island sat far from major travel routes, ...