Natural History Wanderings

The New York Times reports

A comprehensive review of dodo science offers new insights into the biology and behavior of the much-ridiculed bird.

The dodo was a flightless bird about the size of a male turkey that had a long, hooked beak and the goofy charm of an emperor penguin. Its ancestor first appeared on Earth more than 25 million years ago, and by 1662, because of humans, it had vanished from Mauritius, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, the only place it ever existed.

Read more Who’s the Dodo Now? A Famously Extinct Bird, Reconsidered.