a large flightless bird quietly became extinct on an island in the Indian Ocean. Today this bird is all but forgotten. Early explorers to Rodrigues described a "Dodo" living on the tiny forested ...

The bird shed its feathers in March revealing ... meaning they were vulnerable to attack by feral mammals. Dr Angst said the dodo is considered "a very big icon of animal-human induced extinction ...

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 ...