a large flightless bird quietly became extinct on an island in the Indian Ocean. Today this bird is all but forgotten. Early explorers to Rodrigues described a "Dodo" living on the tiny forested ...
The bird shed its feathers in March revealing ... meaning they were vulnerable to attack by feral mammals. Dr Angst said the dodo is considered "a very big icon of animal-human induced extinction ...
Even during the nineteenth century, many people were under the impression that the dodo bird was a mythical creature. However, the flightless, large-beaked birds were real and actually existed.
But we don't know exactly how it got there in the first place, how it evolved, how big it grew or how it behaved. You spent five years creating a virtual 3D model of a dodo. Why was that so important?