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Secret lifestyle of the dodo revealed for the first time

Secret lifestyle of the dodo revealed for the first time

24 August 2017

A study of dodo bones has revealed how the legendary birds matured, bred and moulted, and explains discrepancies in sailors’ descriptions of them

Bird caught in amber 100 million years ago is best ever found

Bird caught in amber 100 million years ago is best ever found

7 June 2017

A hatchling exquisitely preserved in amber is giving us the best glimpse yet of what an extinct group of birds was like

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