Posted on 11/22/2016 3:37:59 PM PST by BenLurkin
The bones of the extinct, flightless bird were sold at Summers Place Auctions, in Billingshurst, West Sussex, to a private collector.
The remains were compiled by a dodo enthusiast over four decades until he had enough bones to create a 95% complete skeleton.
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The auction house said the total paid would be £346,300, ($430,662) which included its fee.
It said there were only 12 similarly complete skeletons in existence and all were held by museums.
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The dodo was a flightless bird once found on Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean.
It was first seen by Portuguese sailors in the first decade of the 16th Century but was soon wiped out by humans and the animals they introduced. The dodo was extinct by 1681.
Bigger than a turkey, it was thought to weigh about 23kg (50lb), with blue-grey plumage, a big head, a nine-inch (23cm) blackish bill with reddish sheath forming the hooked tip, small useless wings, stout yellow legs and a tuft of curly feathers high on its rear end.
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Damn, I always wanted one of these.
She lost the election only a week ago and already they’re selling parts of her body??
They must have been Delicious!
Doesn’t look that tasty.
Then make the soup.
Yeah, just look at those massive drumsticks.
Kentucky Fried Dodo.
Big friggin flightless pigeon.
Hillary really lost a lot of weight during the presidential campaign. She needs some government free cheese and fries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo
So, THAT's what you turn into living in a "Safe Space."
You turn into Dodo's.
Got it.
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I think the person who collected the bones for 4 decades is a dodo. Sorry, couldn’t help myself.
Perhaps there’s enough DNA to clone some.
Sold to Dr. Dolittle? How do you train dodo birds? Stick their noses in dodo?
——extinct, flightless bird -—
the very last of the dinosaurs
To me the Komodo Dragon is pretty close to being a dinosaur. Not the huge ones but there were similar sized ones to the Komodo as well.
The word dodo actually means love.
The big question that I haven’s seen anywhere, is have they been able to recover the DNA of the dodo? If they could get a male and female set, someday they might be able to recreate the species, like they are trying to do with woolly mammoths.
The technique proposed for mammoths is to insert some of the mammoth DNA into an elephant embryo. Then if a viable hybrid is born, to add more mammoth DNA to its offspring, so that in four or five generations, you have a 98% mammoth.
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