Bones reveal what it was like to grow up dodo
Cutting into precious bone specimens gives clues to the extinct birds’ life and times
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SUMMER OF DANGER Mother and chick dodos, illustrated here, needed to eat well and get healthy before the stressful cyclone season, according to a new reconstruction of the extinct bird’s life.
Julian Hume