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Post by jonsdigs on Jul 4, 2007 14:58:42 GMT -5
Dodo found in Mauritius caveMalaysia Sun Wednesday 4th July, 2007 The most complete and well-preserved dodo skeleton found to date, could yield the first useful samples of the long extinct flightless bird's DNA. The skeleton was found during an exploration of a cave on an island off the coast of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. This is the only island were dodos were known to have lived. Very little has been known about the dodo-from what exactly it looked like to what it ate-since it became extinct in the 1600’s. Most of the information about dodos has come from scattered bone fragments. In the 1860’s, one other full skeleton was unearthed in an unknown location. According to National Geographic, the new skeleton is thought to be complete and was most likely preserved by its cave setting. Story
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