They can be found reconstructed in museums on the ... Early observers on Rodrigues called the solitaire the "Rodrigues Dodo". But the two birds were really subtly different evolutionary outcomes ...

"The dodo was quite a brown-grey bird, and during the moulting it had downy, black plumage," explained Dr Angst. "What we found using our scientific methods fit perfectly with what the sailors had ...

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 ...

In fact, the birds were quite the opposite. Researchers examined early records and descriptions of dodos and found that they ...