Two male Rodrigues solitaires fight over a female in the background using club-like wings The extinct Dodo had a little-known relative on another island. This fascinating bird ultimately suffered ...

The last dodo sighting was in 1662, and they are estimated to have gone completely extinct by the year 1690. It’s bizarre to ...

The chances of seeing an animal resembling the woolly mammoth one day are slim — but not entirely impossible. This outlandish ...

If technology manages to recreate extinct animals like the Woolly Mammoth and the Dodo, would they be patented and monitised?

The dodo had downy grey feathers with a white tail plume. The backside of the dodo was believed to have a tuft of lightly coloured feathers ...

Julian explains what went wrong for the dodo, why artists exaggerate and which other forgotten species died out alongside the bird. Despite its relatively recent extinction, the life history of the ...

Well versed in natural history, particularly geology and ornithology, Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811–53) became fascinated by the dodo and mankind's influence on its extinction. Seeking to investigate ...

Animals like the dodo, the Tasmanian tiger and the Quagga have all disappeared. And today, several much-loved animals are very close to extinction, including species of panda, rhino, orangutan and ...

The de-extinction race has been heating up in recent years. From the woolly mammoth to the dodo, the next decade might see us welcoming a host of animals back from the void and into the wild.