Centuries ago, Mauritius held a world unlike anything sailors expected to find. The island sat far from major travel routes, and its wildlife evolved without outside pressure. The dodo lived at the ...

The dodo bird vanished more than 300 years ago, but its story still sparks curiosity. Native to just one island and wiped out in just a few decades, the dodo has become a symbol of extinction and ...

The dodo’s extinction is often reduced to a simple story of overhunting. The truth is more complex. Isolated on Mauritius for thousands of years, the dodo evolved without natural predators. When ...

The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History invites visitors to explore two remarkable chapters in the story of life on Earth—one focused on a crossroads of dinosaur evolution, and the other set ...