The dodo wasn’t as daffy a duck as we once thought.
Despite their dim reputation, evolutionary biologists have learned that the infamously extinct bird, hunted out of existence by humans in the 1600s, was impressively “exceptionally powerful,” according to new insights published last week in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
“Was the dodo really the dumb, slow animal we’ve been brought up to believe it was? The few written accounts of live dodos say it was a fast-moving animal that loved the forest,” said study author Mark Young, a researcher and professor at the University of Southampton in the UK.
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