dodo
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So do the animal-shaped wool carpets that riff on traditional skin rugs by using vegetarian-friendly materials to create colorful, flattened creatures: a fiery, spotted cheetah; a purple-striped dodo; a particularly silly mammoth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
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
Now if the last remaining hereditary peers play their cards right, they could endure another Labour prime minister and delay their destiny to go the way of the dodo.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 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
I’m just a dumb dodo, and you know it!
From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson
Yet not much is known about how dodoes functioned in their ecosystem.
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
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
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
She asks what’s the difference between “a tomb and a museum” with taxidermized dodos.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
Perhaps I should have anticipated it; the dodos and their airport would turn out to be just one more scheme.
From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2020
She knew the Latin phrase “tempus fugit,” which means “time flies,” like a bird—but there were flightless birds, after all: ostriches and emus and dodos and so on.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
