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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.
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]
A collaboration between Colossal Biosciences and conservationists plans to bring back the extinct dodo and reintroduce it to its once-native habitat in Mauritius.
The CIA is funding a mission to reincarnate the long-extinct dodo bird. Here's how it will work—and why the mission matters.
The famous dodo (Raphus cucullatus), last seen in 1662, was endemic to Mauritius. [3] All 17 extinct lemurs were giant lemurs larger than the extant lemurs. The subfossil remains of certain avian orders are scarce on Réunion. Consequently, a few of the extinct birds from Réunion are hypothetical species. They almost certainly existed but lack ...
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 ...
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 ...
The scientists at Colossal are behind the most ambitious projects. This team wants to resurrect the mammoth, the flightless dodo and Tasmanian tiger, an Australian marsupial that went extinct in 1936.