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The Reason Dodo Birds Went Extinct Is More Depressing Than You Thought
One of the most infamous cautionary tales of humanity's follies, the reasons behind the extinction of the dodo are even more ...
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The dodo bird is extinct. This scientist says she can bring it back.
DALLAS — The place where the dead may be brought back to life is a drab, single-story building in an office park next to a semitruck lot. Inside, between rows of incubators and microscopes, Beth ...
What the Dodo Tells Us, 300 Years After Its Extinction
What the dodo symbolizes has changed over time. It has been, variously, a parable, a joke and a warning. When we see it as an ...
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Beth Shapiro: The ancient DNA pioneer’s mission to bring back the dodo
with the exciting prospect of de-extinction. Evolutionary molecular biologist Beth Shapiro is a leading expert in ancient DNA, having been first to recreate DNA data from a dodo. She specialises ...