Secret lifestyle of the dodo revealed for the first time
24 August 2017
A study of dodo bones has revealed how the legendary birds matured, bred and moulted, and explains discrepancies in sailors’ descriptions of them
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Bird caught in amber 100 million years ago is best ever found
7 June 2017
A hatchling exquisitely preserved in amber is giving us the best glimpse yet of what an extinct group of birds was like
Eggs four times bigger than ostriches’ reveal a giant dinosaur
9 May 2017
The creature fossilised as it was breaking out of its huge egg. It would have looked like an overgrown cassowary eight metres long and weighing three tons
