dodo

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The Hall of Extinction and Hope analogizes manmade climate change and habitat destruction to a slow-moving asteroid that has already obliterated species such as the passenger pigeon, dodo and great auk.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2025

Patience, of course, is as rare as the dodo bird on the Govan Road.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025

As a subscriber to the Los Angeles Times for over 50 years, I must say that I’m sorry to see my Sports section go the way of the dodo bird.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2023

The point, however, is that if Homo sapiens were to go the way of the dinosaurs and the dodo, that would be no great loss from the TESCREAList point of view.

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2023

Yeah, so did the dodo bird, the passenger pigeon, Vanilla Ice...

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick