dodo
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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
The company’s other de-extinction hopes include reviving the woolly mammoth, the dodo, and the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2025
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
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
Yet not much is known about how dodoes functioned in their ecosystem.
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
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
She asks what’s the difference between “a tomb and a museum” with taxidermized dodos.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
I found that the island has a small airport, run by dodos: I am saved!
From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2020
It’s definitely genre, though, because the world here is a future in which narcos are cloning extinct species, such as dodos, and there’s not one, but three walls between Mexico and the United States.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2019
“You are to complete your task as quickly as possible and then wait for me among the baby dodos, in the chicken coop. Understood?”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
