The detection happened in October and November near Uafato on Samoa’s island of Upolu. Manumea is a special bird for experts ...

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 ...

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

Deep in a remote Samoan rainforest, field researchers have just confirmed something many biologists had quietly stopped expecting to see in their lifetimes: a living cousin of the Dodo, still clinging ...

Representations of dodos may look hilariously gormless and their name is now synonymous with the likes of 'dolt' and 'boofhead'. But it seems the dodo's situation more aptly represents victim blaming ...

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

The dodo was a flightless bird about the size of a male turkey that had a long, hooked beak and the goofy charm of an emperor penguin. Its ancestor first appeared on Earth more than 25 million years ...

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

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 ...

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