dodo
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Colossal Biosciences has been on a quest to bring back extinct animals, including the woolly mammoth and dodo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Popular culture has often depicted the dodo as clumsy and unintelligent, sometimes suggesting that its extinction was almost unavoidable.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 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 company’s other de-extinction hopes include reviving the woolly mammoth, the dodo, and the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2025
The smiling Wally the Wooly mammoth, Hypacrosauras, and dodo bird on the front of his sweatshirt are faded.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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 William Joseph Long
But is lab-grown meat really likely to put mammoths, dodos and other exotica on the menu?
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2023
Dr. Malcolm pointed into the corner at the dodos, who were pecking intently at bits of barbed wire and pieces of wood, crying, “Doo! Doo!” in what sounded like great excitement.
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
The other drawing was of two birds that looked like dodos.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2022
And speaking of dodos, and tar pits, and things unseen: Edward Ashton had long been thought dead, or even very dead, but apparently he was not as dead as a dodo.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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