Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless, found by 17th ...

They found that many species, such as the Nazarene dodo, were fictional ... analogous to [those of] climbing and running birds alive today," said Neil Gostling, a co-author of the study and ...