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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.

The company’s other de-extinction hopes include reviving the woolly mammoth, the dodo, and the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger.

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

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But with the pension going the way of the dodo, planning and saving for retirement isn't your employer's problem anymore.

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Despite how resilient sharks may seem, though, they may not be able to dodge the fate of the dodo or the passenger pigeon.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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