DALLAS — The place where the dead may be brought back to life is a drab, single-story building in an office park next to a ...

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 imagination of a creative writer. And you wouldn’t be alone.

The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless, found by 17th-century European sailors on the island of ...

Humans logged its forest cover while pigs uprooted and ate much of the understory vegetation. The dodo’s reputation as a foolish, ungainly bird derives in part from its friendly naiveté and the very ...