Centuries ago, Mauritius held a world unlike anything sailors expected to find. The island sat far from major travel routes, and its wildlife evolved without outside pressure. The dodo lived at the ...

(CNN) — A plan to genetically engineer a version of the dodo, a giant flightless bird that disappeared 400 years ago and became the poster child for extinction, has made some headway, according to ...

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 years ...