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

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

He was the first to describe the archaeopteryx after its discovery in Bavaria in 1861 and the first to write a formal epitaph for the dodo.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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

She asks what’s the difference between “a tomb and a museum” with taxidermized dodos.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 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

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

What is clear is that, in Miss Lumley’s day, as in our own, dodos are as dead as, well, dodos, but the carelessness of humans is far from extinct.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood