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dodo

[doh-doh] / ˈdoʊ doʊ /






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Colossal’s latest announcement was that it has hatched 26 chickens in an “artificial egg” — a “foundational step,” it said, “toward resurrecting extinct bird species” such as the New Zealand giant moa and the dodo.

From Los Angeles Times May 21, 2026

I came across exactly one ultra-rare single-zero roulette wheel on the Strip, which felt a little bit like uncovering the hutch of the last surviving dodo.

From Slate Nov. 18, 2025

The Hall of Extinction and Hope analogizes manmade climate change and habitat destruction to a slow-moving asteroid that has already obliterated species such as the passenger pigeon, dodo and great auk.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 2, 2025

Patience, of course, is as rare as the dodo bird on the Govan Road.

From BBC Jan. 23, 2025

He was the first to describe the archaeopteryx after its discovery in Bavaria in 1861 and the first to write a formal epitaph for the dodo.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Yet not much is known about how dodoes functioned in their ecosystem.

From Scientific American Jan. 31, 2023

The dodoes, which reproduced by laying a single egg on the ground, were also predated by other species, such as monkeys and rats, which humans brought with them.

From Scientific American Jan. 31, 2023

Another challenge for de-extinction is ensuring the well-being of the genetically engineered dodoes.

From Scientific American Jan. 31, 2023

Banked with mock turtles, dodoes, lories, red and white queens, mad hatters, March hares and hookah-smoking caterpillars, she manages to make them as real as she is by making herself as unreal as they are.

From Time Magazine Archive

So with Quilp, Toots, Squeers, Pumblechook; so with giraffes, baboons, dodoes, dromedaries,—all are freaks from the æsthetic viewpoint, but think of the overflowing energy implied in creating them!

From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by Long, William Joseph

But is lab-grown meat really likely to put mammoths, dodos and other exotica on the menu?

From Salon Apr. 11, 2023

“They are just birds with dodo DNA. They don’t know how to be dodos because there are no dodos here to teach them.”

From Washington Post Feb. 3, 2023

The concept is still in an early theoretical stage for dodos.

From Seattle Times Jan. 31, 2023

The other drawing was of two birds that looked like dodos.

From New York Times Apr. 24, 2022

Would her instruction to think of the chickens as baby dodos be enough to prevent mayhem?

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood




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