dodo
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So do the animal-shaped wool carpets that riff on traditional skin rugs by using vegetarian-friendly materials to create colorful, flattened creatures: a fiery, spotted cheetah; a purple-striped dodo; a particularly silly mammoth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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
Patience, of course, is as rare as the dodo bird on the Govan Road.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2025
In between live-action roles, Tudyk broke into animation by voicing a dodo in 2002’s “Ice Age.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
However, Penelope insisted that the dodos would be happier in the chicken coop, with all their dodo brothers and sisters nearby.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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
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
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 Long, William Joseph
But is lab-grown meat really likely to put mammoths, dodos and other exotica on the menu?
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2023
“Here is where we hunt the dodos, if necessary.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2023
The concept is still in an early theoretical stage for dodos.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2023
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
But the ghost of Salim, like the dodos, lords and crew of the Mary Celeste, vanished before we reached nine o’clock.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
