The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, which is east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. The dodo's closest relative was the also-extinct and flightless Rodrigues solitaire.

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2025年3月27日 · dodo, (Raphus cucullatus), extinct flightless bird of Mauritius (an island of the Indian Ocean), one of the three species that constituted the family Raphidae, usually placed with pigeons in the order Columbiformes but sometimes separated as an order (Raphiformes).

2023年10月19日 · You have almost certainly heard about the dodo bird in your biology class—a fat, gormless bird that died at the hands of callous sailors. Since these innocuous birds went extinct a few centuries ago, we now only have their historical descriptions, illustrations, and a few skeleton specimens preserved in museums.

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2023年1月31日 · No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The...

Dodos are an extinct species of bird that was native to Mauritius, and island near Madagascar. Much like the flightless cormorant, these birds could not fly. These birds do not have any living relatives or descendants, but their closest relatives are pigeons and doves. Unlike pigeons and doves, they could stand over three feet tall!

2024年8月16日 · A new study has cleared up scientific misconceptions about the extinct dodo, identifying the reference specimen for the species and showing they were fast and powerful.

What is a dodo bird? The dodo was a flightless relative of pigeons and doves, which once inhabited the islands of Mauritius and Reunion. What did the dodo look like? Dodos were large birds,...

2024年9月7日 · The dodo bird disappeared so quickly off the face of Earth 300 years ago that it became the poster bird for extinction; perhaps you've heard the popular expression "as dead as a dodo."