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Only two complete dodo skulls are known to exist anywhere in the world: one at the Natural History Museum Denmark and one at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. The specimen housed in Copenhagen has been preserved in the museum's collections for centuries and has now

The dodo has been extinct for more than 300 years, wiped out within decades of humans arriving on its home island of Mauritius, but it lives on in the public imagination.

The Mauritian dodo—a global symbol of human-caused extinction and one of the world's largest pigeons—may not have deserved its reputation as a silly simpleton and may have been the only member of its group to live in the dark.

CT scans of the world’s rarest dodo skulls suggest the extinct bird may have had a stronger sense of smell, a highly sensitive beak, and a lifestyle that extended into dawn and dusk. The discoveries are helping overturn centuries-old myths and reveal a far more complex animal tha

Por meio da reconstrução digital do espaço que o cérebro da ave ocupava dentro do crânio, os pesquisadores concluíram que o mundo sensorial do dodô diferia do de pombos e rolas vivos em vários aspectos O post Estudo revela como o dodô enxergava e percebia o mundo antes da extinção apareceu primeiro em Olhar Digital.