AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS – Scientists said they likely have found a complete skeleton of the long-extinct dodo bird. The dodo was native to Mauritius when no humans lived there, but its numbers ...

A crazy collection of curios from bones of extinct Dodo birds, hair from a wooly mammoth, and even the tooth from a massive Megalodon shark are all up for auction this week.

Last week, at Christie’s auction house in London, an anonymous buyer paid almost $625,000 for the skeleton of a dodo bird. More precisely, the buyer purchased a set of fossilized bones belonging ...

In real life, the dodo lost. After the Dutch settled its home, the island of Mauritius, in the 17th century, it took less then three decades for the bird, which laid only one egg a year, to go ...

The dodo wasn’t as daffy a duck as we once thought. Despite their dim reputation, evolutionary biologists have learned that the infamously extinct bird, hunted out of existence by humans in the ...

The birds were first seen by Portuguese sailors in about 1507 and were exterminated by humans and their introduced animals. The dodo was extinct by 1681, the Réunion solitaire by 1746, and the ...

The collection—including some of the earliest dodo remains and paintings of the unfortunate bird—is expected to fetch at least $33,000. Price Database 07 July 2025 ...

The dodo is one of the most iconic—and misunderstood—extinct animals. Four hundred years after its extinction, the popular narrative remains that the flightless bird was simply too dumb, slow ...

The dodo was a flightless bird about the size of a male turkey that had a long, hooked beak and the goofy charm of an emperor penguin. Its ancestor first appeared on Earth more than 25 million ...

Animalia The dodo bird is extinct. This scientist says she can bring it back. The company she works for is betting millions it can realize a once-far-fetched idea of “de-extinction.” ...