The dodo Bird and the dodo tree

Al Bawaba | December 21, 2006 | Copyright

Recently a scientist noticed that a certain species of tree was becoming quite rare on the Island of Mauritius. In fact, he noticed that all 13 of the remaining trees of this species were about 300 years old. No new trees had germinated since the late 1600s. Since the average life span of this tree was about 300 years, the last members of the species were extremely old. They would soon die, and the species would be extinct.

Was it just a coincidence that the tree had stopped reproducing 300 years ago and that the dodo bird, that lived on the island, had become extinct 300 years ago?

No. It ...

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