Life in the old bird yet: study of dodo bones yields new biological insights
by Hanneke Meijer from on (#320BC)
It's easy to think that dusty old bones have nothing left to offer, but a new study of dodo bones has given us a glimpse into a long-dead world
"So rapid and complete was their extinction, that the vague descriptions given of them by early travelers were long regarded as fabulous or exaggerated, and these birds, almost contemporaries of our great-grandfathers, became associated in the minds of many persons with the Griffin and the Phoenix of mythological antiquity."
Hugh Strickland, 1848, in Strickland & Melville's The dodo and its kindred.
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