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

Homo sapiens is no more; we disappear just like the dinosaurs and dodo before us, and this remains the case forever.

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2023

No doubt this was just as painful as it sounds; nowadays the pince-nez is as extinct as the dodo.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood