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Dodo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo
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Dodo (Raphus Cucullatus) - A-Z Animals
The dodo was a medium-large sized flightless bird that was discovered on the Island of Mauritius in the 1590s and was declared extinct less than a century later, in 1681.
http://a-z-animals.com/animals/dodo/
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11 Things We Know About the Dodo - Mental Floss
The first thing one must accept when trying to learn about the Dodo is that we'll probably never know that much the flightless bird. Still, careful study of surviving documents and specimens, as well as a little science, have revealed a bit about the Dodo.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/52624/11-things-we-know-about-dodo
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ADW: Dodo - Raphus cucullatus
Dodo birds were once the inhabitants of Mauritius, a small, oyster-shaped island which lies approximately 500 miles east of Madagascar.
http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Raphus_cucullatus/
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Why the Dodo Bird Was Exceptionally Lucky - Modern Notion
How the dodo bird survived a ton of potential catastrophes before getting wiped out.
http://modernnotion.com/dodo-bird-exceptionally-lucky-suddenly-exceptionally-unlucky/
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The Dodo: New Insights Into an Old Bird - ScienceDaily
The dodo is among the most famous extinct creatures, and a poster child for human-caused extinction events. Despite its notoriety, and the fact that the species was alive during recorded human history, little is known about how it lived, looked, and behaved.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141106113255.htm
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Could Scientists Resurrect the Dodo Bird? - HowStuffWorks
The dodo bird could be brought back from extinction thanks to the recent discovery of an intact dodo skeleton. Read about the recent dodo bird discovery.
http://animals.howstuffworks.com/extinct-animals/dodo.htm
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Dodo - Extinct Bird - Britannica
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).
http://www.britannica.com/animal/dodo-extinct-bird
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The Famous Flightless Dodo Bird - Livescience
Perhaps the most famous extinction in human history was that of the flightless dodo bird. Here's a look at images of dodo skeletons and laser scans of the giant pigeon.
http://www.livescience.com/48639-dodo-bird-images.html
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Why the Dodo Went Extinct - TodayIFoundOut
The dodo, or Raphus cucullatus if you want to get fancy, is an extinct species of flightless bird that was native to the tiny island nation of Mauritius before it sadly died out.
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/06/why-the-dodo-went-extinct/
