The dodo bird holds the unfortunate distinction of being arguably the best-known symbol of the Holocene extinction. Endowed with big bodies, miniscule wings, and short legs, these flightless icons ...

We also now know that it was related to the pigeon, and some experts suggest that it made a pigeon-like call, which gave the bird its name. The dodo probably fed on fruit.

David Attenborough comes face-to-face with a dodo, the first animal driven to extinction by humans. Sir David Attenborough comes face-to-face with the dodo, the first animal driven to extinction ...