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Dodo 2.0: The Comeback of the World’s Most Famous Extinct Bird Dodo: The Bird That Forgot How to Fly—and Might Do It Again The world’s most famous extinct bird is getting a second shot at existence, courtesy of science, genetics, and a little human guilt. A Bird Too Trusting for Its Own Good Dodo once roamed Mauritius without a care in the world. The tropical island had no predators, endless fruit, and the kind of weather that makes even pigeons give up flying. Over time, those pigeons evolved into the dodo—fat, happy, and confidently grounded. For millions of years, life was good. Dodos laid one egg right on the forest floor and toddled off to eat more fruit. When you live in paradise, who needs anxiety? Then humans arrived. Within a century, the dodo went from thriving to mythological. Dodo revival announcement from Colossal Not Exactly Finger-Lickin’ Good People often assume the dodo’s extinction came from being too delicious to resist. History tells a duller story. Sailors and settlers discovered that dodo meat tasted somewhere between “chewy disappointment” and “wet shoe.” They didn’t hunt dodos for flavor—they killed them because they were there, easy, and apparently made convenient target practice. Rats, pigs, and dogs brought by humans finished the job by […] The post Dodo 2.0: The Comeback of the World’s Most Famous Extinct Bird appeared first on PopGeeks.com Forum | Indie Games, Movies, TV, Tabletop & Comics. http://dlvr.it/TPXD9Z