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dodo

[doh-doh] / ˈdoʊ doʊ /






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Colossal Biosciences has been on a quest to bring back extinct animals, including the woolly mammoth and dodo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Their goal was to explore a long-standing mystery: how did the dodo perceive and interact with the world around it?

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

Now if the last remaining hereditary peers play their cards right, they could endure another Labour prime minister and delay their destiny to go the way of the dodo.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 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

The dodo bird pecked affectionately at the god’s hooves, making a strange sound in the back of its bill.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

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 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

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

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


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