The Extinction of the Dodo, 1598-1662 (Episode 20)

We're off for some birdwatching this week, with a deep dive into everyone's favorite extinction story, the dodo. Big, flightless, beaky, and laying only a single egg at a time, dodos were doomed from the moment Dutch merchants settled on the island at the turn of the sixteenth century. We lay out how and why the population dwindled, with extensive sidebars into how they tasted (not good), what they looked like (uninspiring), where the last few scraps of dodo remains are today (in museums and in court), and, most crucially, how likely they are to being revived through cloned DNA for observation and research in a Jurassic Park-style ecopark (not very likely, unfortunately, but we both fully support this). 

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