Sentences with phrase «dodo bird died»

The last Dodo bird died on the island of Mauritius (located about 1,200 miles off the southeast coast of Africa, in the Indian Ocean) over 300 years ago.

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But as the dodo's habitat was destroyed, the bird died out.

Scientists are also close to reconstructing the genomes of the dodo, the flightless bird that went extinct from Mauritius, its only home, in the late 1600s; and the great auk, which lived in the North Atlantic before dying out in the mid-19th century.

Since it died out in the 17th century, the dodo has been depicted as a lumbering, fat bird, ripe for extinction.