Life cycle of the mysterious and long-dead dodo revealed by bone study

From egg-laying to moulting, a new bone analysis has unpicked the biology of the long-extinct bird

Bulbous-beaked, plump and puny-winged, the dodo has been immortalised by humans in art, literature and song.

But while the peculiar animals have inspired a panoply of research, not least as to whether they were really bird-brained or as corpulent as portraits implied, much about the dodo's life has remained a mystery until now.