dodo

Peter Hosner says the study does not answer every question about the dodo, but it gives researchers a stronger framework for understanding the bird's behavior and ecology.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

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

Colossal’s latest announcement was that it has hatched 26 chickens in an “artificial egg” — a “foundational step,” it said, “toward resurrecting extinct bird species” such as the New Zealand giant moa and the dodo.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 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

Each of them now cradled a sleepy, clucking dodo baby.

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 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

Instead of a city on the mainland, the dodos flew me to another near-deserted island, My only companion was a rhinoceros who was herself trapped.

From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2020

Just as modern humans walked up to unafraid dodos and island seals and killed them, prehistoric humans presumably walked up to unafraid moas and giant lemurs and killed them too.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond