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dodo

[doh-doh] / ˈdoʊ doʊ /






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Colossal Biosciences has been on a quest to bring back extinct animals, including the woolly mammoth and dodo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Scientists cannot determine exact behavior from anatomy alone, but these findings provide new clues about how the dodo may have located food and interacted with its island habitat.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

Now if the last remaining hereditary peers play their cards right, they could endure another Labour prime minister and delay their destiny to go the way of the dodo.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026

I came across exactly one ultra-rare single-zero roulette wheel on the Strip, which felt a little bit like uncovering the hutch of the last surviving dodo.

From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025

I’m just a dumb dodo, and you know it!

From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson

Yet not much is known about how dodoes functioned in their ecosystem.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 31, 2023

Another challenge for de-extinction is ensuring the well-being of the genetically engineered dodoes.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 31, 2023

The dodoes, which reproduced by laying a single egg on the ground, were also predated by other species, such as monkeys and rats, which humans brought with them.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 31, 2023

Banked with mock turtles, dodoes, lories, red and white queens, mad hatters, March hares and hookah-smoking caterpillars, she manages to make them as real as she is by making herself as unreal as they are.

From Time Magazine Archive

So with Quilp, Toots, Squeers, Pumblechook; so with giraffes, baboons, dodoes, dromedaries,—all are freaks from the æsthetic viewpoint, but think of the overflowing energy implied in creating them!

From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William Joseph Long

But is lab-grown meat really likely to put mammoths, dodos and other exotica on the menu?

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2023

The concept is still in an early theoretical stage for dodos.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2023

The other drawing was of two birds that looked like dodos.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2022

Perhaps I should have anticipated it; the dodos and their airport would turn out to be just one more scheme.

From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2020

All were amazed at this demonstration, and at the sight of the baby dodos, too, for everyone knew that dodos were long extinct.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood


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