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Dodo , in the Bible, father of the mighty man Eleazar . An alternate form is Dodai.... Read more
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dodo a flightless forest-dwelling bird of Mauritius, extinct since the late 17th cent. The dodo was closely related to the two species of solitaire bird, extinct flightless giants found on the other islands in the Mascarene Islands. Although related to the pigeon , the dodo was larger than the... Read more
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roc a mythical bird of Eastern legend, supposed to be of great size and strength; it is first referred to in Marco Polo's account of Madagascar, but in English use it is known chiefly from the Arabian Nights; in the story of Sinbad it is said to be able to lift elephants in its claws.In the story... Read more
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Flightless dodo bird existed 300 years ago on island east of Madascar.(Neighbor)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) ...Forest Preserve, said the dodos ate certain tree seeds...were passed from the bird, these seeds became...island. Nan said the story of the dodo bird is an excellent example...40,000-year-old bird which nearly became ...
Dodo bird was member of pigeon family, journal reports.(The Dallas Morning News)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service DALLAS _ Dodos are still deader than...biologists have resurrected dodo DNA. The big, dead...consider cloning the bird. "It's such a figurehead...were another extinct bird _ the solitaire, which...predators to threaten birds on the ground. The ...
Tundra Books.('The Adventures of Cosmo the Dodo Bird' series)(Brief...
Magazine article from: Children's Bookwatch ...comprising the 'The Adventures of Cosmo the Dodo Bird' series to be a fine pick for even the most reluctant reader. Eye-catching covers with dodos and monsters in full color accompany fun stories of the hero Cosmo, which has been a big hit...
Of Commissions and Dodo Birds.
Magazine article from: On Wall Street ...last resort, but as Dan Jamieson notes in this month's cover story ("Fighting Back," page 40), some brokers feel the lawsuits...with their own firms. Jamieson, who also wrote the feature story "Take This Job and..." in our October issue, has a keen...
WORLD SERIES; Genius or a dodo bird?; Jury's out on Brenly move.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald ...Mr. November - ending it with a home run off reliever Byung-Hyun Kim at four minutes past midnight. But the story behind the story was Brenly's decision to lift Schilling, which is why Kim was in the game. Schilling, who had allowed just...
DODO MAKES ITS COMEBACK IN CITY; Bird skeleton goes on display at museum.
Newspaper article from: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England) ...THE PHRASE "dead as a dodo" is proverbial for anything...mounted skeleton of a dodo anywhere in the world...the bones of different dodos found in a swamp on the...missing is the top of the bird's skull, or cranium...skeleton, with an important ...
DEAD BIRD SOCIETY The dodo, the great auk and the tragicomic Mauritius red...
Newspaper article from: The Independent (London, England) ...home to the unlucky dodo, was also where...beneath, from the sad stories of those species...garefowl, whose story is so well told in...new book, Extinct Birds (from which the...of this flightless bird. Those sailors...tens of thousands of ...
Endangered evolutionists: a new film ponders the popularity of "intelligent...
Magazine article from: Reason ...The result is Flock of Dodos, an engaging, sometimes...dull. Indeed, Flock of Dodos itself does a solid job...prizefight. Cartoon dodo birds flock across the screen...recent years. As Flock of Dodos recounts, the decision...advocates is not ...
KidSeries' 'Dodo' takes glorious flight
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times ...REVIEW'FLIGHT OF THE DODO' HIGHLY RECOMMENDED...a simple scatological story complete with the bathroom...Waddlers (as non-flying birds are known): Ostrich...take to the sky to get a bird's-eye view of the...Flappers (as the flightless birds ...
Much ado about dodos.
Newspaper article from: Daily Mail (London) ...containing the bones of a dodo, a bird extinct for 300 years...glass case containing dodo bones and the fragments of what he was told was a dodo egg - if they're genuine...by the bones and by the story of the dodo. One of ...

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