THE long-extinct dodo could be brought back from the dead by 2028, nearly 350 years after humans hunted them into extinction. Either that, or the long-lost Tasmanian tiger, the CEO of a landmark ...
And the typical gestation period for the dodo – a large flightless bird that once lived on the island of of Mauritius but died off sometime in the 17th century – is about a month long.
The extinction of hundreds of bird species caused by humans over the last 130,000 years has led to substantial reductions in avian functional diversity -- a measure of the range of different roles and ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Dodo, the famous flightless bird that inhabited the Indian Ocean island ... Some wondrous birds have been lost. The large flightless elephant birds endemic to Madagascar ...
The weather is set to ease in Southland as MetService changes its warning from red to yellow. Wrongfully convicted Gail Maney has had her conviction quashed. Kiwi film-maker Sir Peter Jackson has ...