One of her donations to the museum is reputed to be the only egg in existence of the extinct, flightless dodo bird. |
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First described by explorers around 1600, the dodo was extinct fewer than 80 years later. |
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What does he say now that the social entrepreneur scheme is as dead as a dodo? |
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In fact, the upstairs bar was as dead as a dodo, but the downstairs bar, facing the diners, was even more convenient. |
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Since the mid-1800s, the dodo has been classified as part of the family that includes pigeons and doves. |
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Dreams of a secular India, where the commanding heights of the economy are in the public sector, are as dead as a dodo. |
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It was a final flurry worth waiting for and made all the more remarkable after a dead as a dodo first half. |
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It was a handsome, solitary bird, and was therefore known as the solitaire, while a similar bird on Mauritius was called the dodo. |
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The DNA evidence does indicate that the dodo and the solitaire separated from a common ancestor about 25.6 million years ago. |
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Dada is as extinct as the dodo, and absurdism gave Surrealism a different spin. |
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We have wiped out more species than I can name, from the dodo to the moa to the quagga to the thylacine. |
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A giant flightless bird like the dodo is on the extreme end of avian evolution. |
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Increasingly, it seems, such restraint, like a batsman walking when he nicks it, has gone the way of the dodo. |
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But it was the pigs, rats and monkeys introduced by man that ravaged the dodo eggs and chicks and led to the bird's extinction. |
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The tam is thought to have evolved to survive passage through the gullet of the island's biggest, flightless bird, the dodo. |
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The early casualties of this phenomenon were mostly isolated populations like the dodo of Mauritius and the Steller's sea cow. |
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We care for the same reason that we love okapis, delight in the fossil evidence of trilobites, and mourn the passage of the dodo. |
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Some have become extinct, the great auk, the passenger pigeon and the famous dodo bird have all disappeared. |
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The film is presented for the welfare of the world by the cheetah, the passenger pigeon and the dodo, which have become extinct. |
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By way of illustration, consider the rhetorical question of the financial value to be placed on the extermination of the dodo. |
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I've planted them with the hazel coppice, which still looks dead as a dodo from winter chainsawing. |
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The spooky melodrama and gothic effects are restricted to a bad sound design and acting by the seven-strong cast as dead as a dodo. |
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The Dutch managed to exterminate the poor dodo, but they did create the fascinating cultural blend that exists today. |
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Plenty of languages among them Akkadian, Etruscan, Tangut and Chibcha have gone the way of the dodo, without causing much trouble to posterity. |
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The dodo of Mauritius is a famous example of island gigantism. |
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Is it the next big dot com.company to go the way of the dodo bird? Or is it the newest country band to come out of small-town Canada? |
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When people hear the word 'extinction' they usually think of dinosaurs or dodo birds. |
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Thank God the idea of regional assemblies is now as dead as a dodo. |
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Also bear in mind that this region is as dead as a dodo at night. |
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While the League's television bid might now be as dead as a dodo, there are some vital facts that any future television deal-makers will find interesting to pore over. |
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Ever the optimist, Crystal believes that languages need not meet the fate of the dodo bird. |
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However, I guess I'd still lay long odds against it happening, since even bipartisan cabinets have mostly gone the way of the dodo bird these days. |
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There is little doubt that if this were a more racially homogeneous country, capital punishment would have gone the way of the dodo bird 30 years ago. |
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Within 100 years of the arrival of humans on Mauritius, the once abundant dodo became a rare bird. |
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The company's economic activity in Mauritius largely contributed to the extinction of the dodo, a flightless bird that was endemic to the island. |
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In 1607 Van der Hagen sailed to Mauritius, there he met with Cornelis Matelieff and ate a dodo, whose taste he noted was rather disgusting. |
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We have a dodo bird, but we have no turtle,'' said Kozlowski, who plays Alice. |
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It could also be that overly imaginative journalists have joined the dodo bird and passenger pigeon in the annals of history. |
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Other animals that have been wiped out by overhunting include the dodo and the moa, both species of birds, and the stellar sea cow a slow moving marine mammal. |
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He did indeed refer to himself as the dodo, but whether or not this reference was to his stammer is simply speculation. |
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Weighing up to 50 pounds, the dodo was a welcome source of fresh meat for the sailors. |
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The combination of human exploitation and introduced species significantly reduced the dodo population. |
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Now that wordprocessing has caught on, typewriters have gone the way of the dodo. |
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Republicans are going the way of the dodo in the Golden State. |
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Now extinct, the dodo was a large, flightless bird nearly the size of a swan. It had a huge black bill ending in a horny hook, stout yellow legs, and a short tail that formed a curly tuft. |
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By comparing dodo DNA with the genes of five other species, for example, Shapiro's research established that the flightless bird was a distant relative of the pigeon. |
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If you've dropped your mobile in water and find that it's dead as a dodo, here's an idea that could bring it back to life. |
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It would give both races a much-needed boost and breathe new life into the Triple Crown, which, as things stand, is as dead as a dodo. |
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Despite the success of the dick-to-donate concept, several of the sector's leading lights have nevertheless gone the way of the dodo bird. |
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Among its collection are the skeletons of a Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops, and the most complete remains of a dodo found anywhere in the world. |
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One of the animals, the dodo bird, will be extinct by the next century. |
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The real fans, the working class, are now fast going the way of the dodo and being replaced by the Johnny-come-lately middle classes who can afford inflated prices. |
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Actually, 20 years ago I thought they would go the way of the dodo bird, when companies first started using 800 phone numbers, and included those numbers in their ads. |
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The only negative was a 90thminute red card for Shaun Geddes who, with the match dead as a dodo, was shown the most pedantic of second yellow cards by the referee. |
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I understand the dodo bird did much the same thing in its final days. |
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