No one has seen a dodo in three and a half centuries, but that hasn't stopped the bizarre speculation about this extinct bird. Henry Nicholls investigates whether recent excavations in Mauritius could reveal the real creature.
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Nicholls, H. Digging for dodo. Nature 443, 138–140 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/443138a
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