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Anytime a storm passes through Tampa Bay, Florida, Brianna Varner pays a visit to Pass-a-Grille beach. Since storms often ...
Last year, wildlife photographer Brianna Varner and her boyfriend paid a visit to Florida’s Pass-a-Grille Beach. The area had ...
Genetic studies conducted on preserved dodo specimens confirm its closest living relative is the Nicobar pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica), a colorful bird still found across Southeast Asia and the Pacific ...
The dodo went extinct in the 17th century after sailors who arrived to the island "found that the dodo was very easy to catch," according to the museum's page, which adds: … even though it didn ...
The year 1681 was the last time mankind saw the dodo before it became the universal symbol for extinction. The flightless bird, endemic to Mauritius, was said to be so trusting that it would walk ...
Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless, found ...
But the dodo-as-warning idea took hold at this time, too. In 1874, Charles Darwin and his scientific colleagues cited the dodo in a plea to Mauritius’s colonial governor to save local tortoises.
Animalia The dodo bird is extinct. This scientist says she can bring it back. The company she works for is betting millions it can realize a once-far-fetched idea of “de-extinction.” ...
For such an iconic animal, it seems strange that we know next to nothing about the dodo - except, of course, that it is dead. We don't know how it lived, what it ate, how many eggs it sat on or ...