Dodo - Wikipedia
The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, which is east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. The dodo's closest relative was the also-extinct and flightless Rodrigues solitaire.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Dodo
The dodo was primarily a forest bird, occasionally venturing closer to the shoreline. More than 26 million years ago, these pigeon-like birds found paradise while exploring the Indian Ocean: the...
Lifestyle of the dodo revealed - Natural History Museum
2017年8月25日 · Secrets of how the extinct dodo lived have finally been uncovered. Scientists examining the structure of the birds' bones have found new information about how quickly dodos grew, when they laid eggs and when they moulted.
Scientists plot the resurrection of a bird that’s been extinct since ...
2023年1月31日 · No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The...
The Dodo in Life - Tetrapod Zoology
2020年7月12日 · The Dodo – endemic to Mauritius, made extinct at some unknown point in the late 1600s (Roberts & Solow 2003, Hume et al. 2004, Cheke 2006) – was a giant, flightless pigeon, closely related to Nicobar pigeons (Caloenas) and crowned pigeons (Goura).
10 Facts About the Dodo Bird - ThoughtCo
2024年9月7日 · Until the modern era, the dodo had led a charmed life: There were no predatory mammals, reptiles, or even large insects on its island habitat and thus no need to evolve any natural defenses.
Secret life of the dodo revealed - BBC
2017年8月24日 · Scientists are piecing together clues about the life of the dodo, hundreds of years after the flightless bird was driven to extinction.
Dodo | Bird, History, & Facts | Britannica
2024年10月29日 · dodo, (Raphus cucullatus), extinct flightless bird of Mauritius (an island of the Indian Ocean), one of the three species that constituted the family Raphidae, usually placed with pigeons in the order Columbiformes but sometimes separated as an order (Raphiformes).
Dodo birds were much more active than we previously thought
2024年8月18日 · New research uncovers the truth behind the extinct Dodo, challenging myths and revealing surprising insights about this iconic bird.
Recreating the lost world of the dodo - Natural History Museum
The dodo lived solely in Mauritius and we know it was extinct by around 1680, less than 100 years after humans inhabited its island home. But we don't know exactly how it got there in the first place, how it evolved, how big it grew or how it behaved.