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
They reminded me of miniature cafeteria ladies who’d been crossbred with dodo birds.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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
Yet not much is known about how dodoes functioned in their ecosystem.
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
“They are just birds with dodo DNA. They don’t know how to be dodos because there are no dodos here to teach them.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 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
“Baby dodos smell just like chickens. It is a remarkable coincidence.”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
