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

Since the children’s book is a work of fiction, perhaps you may have thought that the dodo bird itself was also spun from the imagination of a creative writer. And you wouldn’t be alone.

This poor old bird is a dodo. It once lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. And it's almost certainly the first animal species that human beings actually exterminated in historic ...