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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.
The dodo is perhaps one of the most widely recognized extinct bird species. A plump, flightless bird closely related to doves, the dodo lived solely on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. [15] [16] As is seen with regularity in species with abundant food and no predators on an isolated island, their descendants evolved per their ...
Dodo. 1650 Broad-billed Parrot [1] 1680 Mauritian Red Rail [1] 1681 Dodo [1] 1690 Réunion Sheldgoose; ... List of extinct bird species since 1500; Lists of extinct ...
The Rodrigues solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Rodrigues, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Genetically within the family of pigeons and doves, it was most closely related to the also extinct dodo of the nearby island Mauritius, the two forming the subfamily Raphinae.
A collaboration between Colossal Biosciences and conservationists plans to bring back the extinct dodo and reintroduce it to its once-native habitat in Mauritius.
Colossal Biosciences has already announced plans to bring back to life the woolly mammoth and Tasmanian tiger
Bathornithids, which were similar in ecology and are likely close relatives of phorusrhacids, existed entirely within North America during part of the Cenozoic and competed successfully for a time with large carnivorans such as nimravids, [17] before becoming extinct in the Early Miocene, about 20 million years ago.
Recently extinct flightless birds include Madagascar's elephant bird (left), Mauritius's dodo and the great auk of the Atlantic (bottom right). Human arrival in the Caribbean around 6,000 years ago is correlated with the extinction of many species. [282] These include many different genera of ground and arboreal sloths across all islands. These ...