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.

There is only one near-complete dodo skeleton that exists, consisting of bones from just one bird, and it has remained unstudied until the twenty-first century. It is extremely rare and valuable, and it is housed in the Durban Natural Science Museum. We recreated the whole bird in 3D with laser surface scanning technology.

2024年8月16日 · By poring through early records and descriptions of the dodo and a related species called the solitaire, researchers cleared up misconceptions about the iconic creatures. It turns out, the...

2023年1月31日 · 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...

2024年5月26日 · By the mid-17th century, the once-abundant bird had become increasingly rare. The last confirmed sighting of a dodo was in 1662, and by 1690, the species was considered extinct. The rapid decline of the dodo population can be seen in the historical records of the time.

Within 100 years of the arrival of humans on Mauritius, the once abundant dodo bird was a rare bird. The last dodo bird was killed in 1681. Although the tale of the dodo bird’s demise is well documented, no complete specimens of the bird were preserved; there are only fragments and sketches. The dodo bird is just one of the bird species ...

2018年11月27日 · Real evidence of the dodo does exist, however rare. Despite how popular the bird’s remains were to pass around, no complete set exists. The cast skeleton in the Ripley’s collection was made using the most complete skeleton ever found—a specimen discovered in a …

2014年4月15日 · The biggest and oddest dove was the Dodo—a huge bird (three feet tall and weighing up to 40 pounds) resembling a giant hatchling found only on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, a predator-free Eden.

It’s hard to imagine a world where the dodo bird still exists, but scientific evidence overwhelmingly supports their extinction. Dodo bird fossils found in Mauritius reveal that the last of these flightless birds died out over 300 years ago. Genetic studies have also confirmed that the dodo is not related to any living bird species today.