The Dodo bird is extinct. We all know that. Most of us envision the Dodo as a large round awkward bird with a big plume of tail feathers and an enormous beak - which is mostly correct, except for the awkward part - but do we know anything else about it? What family it belonged to? Where it lived? What it ate? What caused the extinction of the Dodo bird? If you've ever wondered about these things, read on for some interesting
Dodo bird history:
Sources for this article:
Extinct Dodo Related to Pigeons, DNA Shows. Hillary Mayell for National Geographic News, February 28, 2002.
Newfound Island Graveyard May Yield Clues to Dodo Life of Long Ago. Carl Zimmer, New York Times, July 4, 2006.