Colonisation also brought new species to the island, such as rats, dogs, cats and pigs, which all contributed to the extinction of the flightless dodo A femur bone from the extinct bird the dodo ...

The bones of adult birds also show signs of mineral loss, which suggests that they lost old damaged feathers after the breeding season. Ancient mariners gave conflicting accounts of the dodo ...

Avian palaeontologist Dr Julian Hume is rediscovering the dodo by introducing old bones to new technology. Julian explains what went wrong for the dodo, why artists exaggerate and which other ...