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

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

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Since 2014, Samoa’s “little dodo” has been listed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List: related to the extinct dodo, an adult manumea, as it’s called locally, has not been photographed well ...

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