The dodo's closest living relative, the Samoan manumea, was spotted alive in the wild, after being missing for years.

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

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 ...

After years of silence, Samoa’s elusive manumea has been sighted again in remote forests, offering fragile hope for the ...

The manumea, a critically endangered ground pigeon and one of the closest living dodo relatives, has been spotted multiple ...

A manumea, the closest living relative of the extinct dodo bird, has been sighted for the first time since 2013, raising hope ...

Flightless birds have had a rough go of it over the past few centuries, with many going extinct — the most iconic being the dodo bird. But not all have perished. Here are four flightless birds that ...

According to the Samoa Conservation Society, the last confirmed manumea sighting before this series was in August 2020.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The dodo is an extinct flightless bird whose name has become synonymous with stupidity. But it turns out that the dodo was no bird brain, but instead a reasonably brainy bird.