A Rare Look Inside the Dodo’s Skull Challenges Centuries of Myths
CT scans of three museum skulls found forebrains similar to pigeons and optic lobes more than 3.5 times smaller.
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A Rare Look Inside the Dodo’s Skull Challenges Centuries of Myths
CT scans reveal new clues to how the dodo sensed its environment and challenge its reputation as an unintelligent bird. For centuries, one of the world’s only two complete dodo skulls has been preserved in Copenhagen. Now, that rare specimen is helping researchers investigate a question fossils rarely answer directly: what was it like for [...]
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ecotopical.comThe dodo bird had a secret sensory world scientists are only now discovering
CT scans of the world’s rarest dodo skulls suggest the extinct bird may have had a stronger sense of smell, a highly sensitive beak, and a lifestyle that extended into dawn and dusk. The discoveries are helping overturn centuries-old myths and reveal a far more complex animal than the famously “dumb” dodo of popular imagination.
The extinct Dodo was long regarded as a lump and stupid. Analyses of his skull now draw a different picture of the incapacitated bird.
Researchers at the University of Lethbridge in Canada analyzed one of the rare complete dodo skulls, preserved in Copenhagen, to investigate how this extinct bird perceived and interacted with its environment. The study, published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, offers new insights into the behavioral ecology of the dodo. Analysis of the Copenhagen Dodo Skull The dodo skull, one of only two known complete skulls, was analyzed u…
Disappeared for centuries, the dodo continues to fascinate. This bird is often seen as a less developed and more "basic" version of today's volatiles, yet the study of its skull reveals abilities and a more complex way of life than we thought.
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