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Dodos

The composite skeleton sold for a little more than $621,700.

Sold: A Nearly Complete Skeleton of a Dodo

The remains of the long-extinct, flightless bird from Mauritius are waddling off to a new home.

Jessica Leigh Hester May 28, 2019

A dodo at the Natural History Museum in London.

What the Dodo Means to Mauritius

The extinct bird is a national symbol. But why?

Meg Charlton December 4, 2018

Frederick William Frohawk's restoration, from Walter Rothschild's 1907 book <em>Extinct Birds</em>.

Investigating the Cold-Blooded Murder of a Long-Dead Dodo

Who killed the flightless bird at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History?

Natasha Frost April 26, 2018

Oxford, England

Oxford Museum of Natural History

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

Alice, Oxford, and the Dodo

Annetta Black November 19, 2013

London, England

Natural History Museum of London

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A Nicobar Tree Shrew in the Grant Museum of Zoology

London, England

Grant Museum of Zoology

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Oxford, England

Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.