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The dodo ( Raphus cucullatus) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, which is east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. The dodo's closest relative was the also-extinct and flightless Rodrigues solitaire.
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Jun 20, 2024 · The dodo, bigger than a turkey, weighed about 23 kg (about 50 pounds). It had blue-gray plumage, a big head, a 23-cm (9-inch) blackish bill with reddish sheath forming the hooked tip, small useless wings, stout yellow legs, and a tuft of curly feathers high on its rear end. The Réunion solitaire may have been a white version of the dodo.
The dodo was endemic to the island of Mauritius, 500 miles from the Eastern coast of Madagascar. The dodo was primarily a forest bird, occasionally venturing closer to the shoreline. More than...
Oct 19, 2023 · The Dodo bird went extinct due many factors. Since there was no natural predator of the Dodo on the island of Mauritius, the bird was an easy prey for humans that arrived on the island. Further, humans introduced invasive species that outcompeted the dodo for food.
Jan 31, 2023 · 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. CNN ...
Feb 10, 2023 · A biotech company announced a bold effort to ‘de-extinct’ the dodo last week. The flightless birds vanished from the island of Mauritius — in the Indian Ocean — in the late seventeenth ...
Aug 24, 2017 · Scientists are piecing together clues about the life of the dodo, hundreds of years after the flightless bird was driven to extinction.
The dodo lived solely in Mauritius and we know it was extinct by around 1680, less than 100 years after humans inhabited its island home. But we don't know exactly how it got there in the first place, how it evolved, how big it grew or how it behaved.
