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The dodo's closest relative was the also-extinct and flightless Rodrigues solitaire. The two formed the subtribe Raphina, a clade of extinct flightless birds that were a part of the family which includes pigeons and doves. The closest living relative of the dodo is the Nicobar pigeon.
Image credits: Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre After this “new Dodo, the de-extinct Dodo is able to replace the Dodo in the ecosystem where it lived, and perform all of the ecosystem services ...
The CIA is funding a mission to reincarnate the long-extinct dodo bird. Here's how it will work—and why the mission matters.
A collaboration between Colossal Biosciences and conservationists plans to bring back the extinct dodo and reintroduce it to its once-native habitat in Mauritius.
In the face of habitat loss and invasive species, the dodo is suspected to have gone extinct in the late 1600s, [18] likely before it was fully described by taxonomists. [19] Its sudden extinction highlights the susceptibility of endemic island species, and the dodo serves as an early poster species for anthropogenic extinction. [20]
Mass extinctions are characterized by the loss of at least 75% of species within a geologically short period of time (i.e., less than 2 million years). [18] [51] The Holocene extinction is also known as the "sixth extinction", as it is possibly the sixth mass extinction event, after the Ordovician–Silurian extinction events, the Late Devonian extinction, the Permian–Triassic extinction ...
The feeding habits of the dodo, a bird extinct since the late 1600s believed to have about the same intelligence as a pigeon, kept the flora of the Mauritius island, about 500 miles east of ...
Island species in general, and flightless island species in particular, are most at risk. The situation is exemplified by Hawaii, where 30% of all known recently extinct bird taxa originally lived, [5] and Guam, which lost over 60% of its native bird taxa in the decades following the introduction of the brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis).