Rare Dodo Skeleton Found: ; Last Known Stuffed Version of Bird Was Destroyed in 1755 Fire
Sunday Gazette-Mail › December 27, 2005
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Scientists said they likely have found a complete skeleton of the long-extinct dodo bird.
The dodo was native to Mauritius when no humans lived there but its numbers rapidly dwindled after the arrival of Portuguese and Dutch sailors in the 1500s. The last recorded sighting of a live bird was in 1663.See the full content of this document
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Rare Dodo Skeleton Found: ; Last Known Stuffed Version of Bird Was Destroyed in 1755 Fire
An international team of researchers said they found the bones of the bird on a sugar cane plantation on the...
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