What the dodo symbolizes has changed over time. It has been, variously, a parable, a joke and a warning. When we see it as an ...

Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. 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 ...

On first inspection, the Cuban blue-headed quail dove doesn't look like much: drab brown feathers, a slender beak, and a ...

The dodo is one of the early entries on an already lengthy list of extinctions. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The dodo was surprisingly also a type of dove ... quail dove prefers to spend most of its time on the ground, its ancestors almost certainly possessed the powerful flying ability of most other ...

Researchers sequenced the DNA of Cuban blue-headed quail dove, expecting clear origins. Instead, they found it has no close relatives.