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 ...

One of the most infamous cautionary tales of humanity's follies, the reasons behind the extinction of the dodo are even more ...

And it's almost certainly the first animal species that human beings actually exterminated in historic times. And so now we talk about being 'as dead as a dodo.' But in spite of its fame, this one ...

Julian Hume, an avian paleontologist who studies the dodo at London's Natural History Museum, asks CNN's Katie Hunt. Others argue that the original habitats of extinct animals don't exist anymore ...

The dodo was a flightless bird that lived on the island nation of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. It is a case study of extinction caused by humans. The dodo had adapted to its isolated ecosystem ...