The specimen might be our greatest opportunity to unlock the mysteries surrounding how the bird behaved, how it lived, how it ...

The Oxford Dodo - the world's most famous example of the extinct bird - was shot in the head, research has found. Historians believed the flightless creature had been kept alive in a 17th Century ...

New research in the U.K. found that the famous Oxford dodo died after being shot in the back of the head. Native to the island of Mauritius, the dodo was first discovered by sailors in 1598, and was ...

Dodos have been extinct since 1681, just 100 years after the 3ft-tall bird was discovered in Mauritius. But now, with scientists poised to publish the DNA of a specimen in the Natural History Museum ...

A skeleton made up of bones from a number of dodo birds is expected to fetch up to £600,000 ($778,000) at an upcoming Christie's auction in London. The specimen has been pieced together from bones ...

THE dodo may be dead - so dead, in fact, as to have become the stuff of proverb - but at least the unfortunate flightless bird is not forgotten. And for that, we may have the son of a North Yorkshire ...