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Nature 443, 138-140 (14 September 2006) | doi:10.1038/443138a; Published online 13 September 2006
Ornithology: Digging for dodo
Henry Nicholls1
- Henry Nicholls is a freelance writer in London.
Abstract
No one has seen a dodo in three and a half centuries, but that hasn't stopped the bizarre speculation about this extinct bird. Henry Nicholls investigates whether recent excavations in Mauritius could reveal the real creature.
The dodo is perhaps the most famous symbol of extinction, yet no one knows exactly when or how it went extinct. In fact, no one knows much of anything about the flightless creature, which lived on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius until soon after Portuguese and Dutch sailors showed up in the sixteenth century.
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