The Dodo, Didus, is a bird that inhabits some of the islands of the East Indies. Its history is little known; but if the representation of it be at all just, this is the ugliest and most disgusting of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Flightless birds, like the dodo bird of the small Indian ...

Where dis the Dodo live and what's it's environment like ? When Dutch sailors first explored the Indian Ocean, they encountered two birds unlike any seen elsewhere – the dodo and the solitaire. Both ...

Has humanity learned its lesson after driving the dodo to extinction? With the environment and biodiversity still at risk, it doesn't seem so. The Oxford University Museum of Natural History is home ...

Author's note-Last week I was surprised to learn that this post was selected for the 2011 edition of The Open Laboratory - a "best of" science blogs mixtape which features some of the top blog entries ...