[GraceG]

We need to clone the dodo back to life so we can farm raise the things and have tasty dodo nuggets

[4yearlurker]

There is a stuffed and mounted Dodo bird in the Carnegie Museum of natural history in Pittsburgh. The specimen is really beat up and worn looking.

[I want the USA back]

And the American turkeys are not native to that ecosystem. What will the consequences be?

[Little Ray]

The lesson is “Overspecialization is an evolutionary dead end.”

[Jim W N]

DON’T BE A DODO!

[Politicalkiddo]

One of the extinctions that upsets me the most. They looked so darn cute and weird.

[null and void]

False premise, the tree could not live without the dodo, therefore it couldn’t have existed before the dodo.

Two errors, #1 the tree can live with any other creature whose digestive tract thins the shells, (the example of the American Turkey is given in this very article!) error #2 the assumption that the early trees had thick shells (They may well have, or they may have needed to develop progressively thicker shells when their fruit eaters started experimenting with gravel filled gizzards)

[billyboy15]

“Extinction of Dodo Bird threatens tree species”

No shit?

[nuke rocketeer]

You drew the wrong conclusion. The tree could very well be 360 million years old, and the Dodo 65 million. The necessarily did not have to come into being at the same time. If the turkey can digest seeds in the same way as the dodo, then there was probably anther bird (or dinosaur) now extinct, who could do the same.

Trying to use this as a condemnation and refutation of evolution is the mark of an idiot grasping at straws.

[alexander_busek]

The Tambalacoque and the dodo bird would had to have come into existence at the same time in order for the Tambalacoque to survive. This message presents some problems for the evolutionary theory. Evolutionists say large trees evolved some 360 million years ago, while the ancestors of today’s birds “arrived comparatively late”—about 65 million years ago. That would have left the Tambalacoque tree with no way to germinate its seeds for some 300 million years.

This is a blatant misrepresentation!

The Dodo was not dependent upon the Tambalocoque for nourishment; Tambalocoque seeds were but one component of its diet.

One possible scenario is that a precursor of the Dodo (or even some entirely different animal) supplemented its diet with seeds from a precursor of the Tambalacoque - whose seeds were initially not especially dependent upon passage through an alimentary canal for germination.

Gradually, the ancestor of the Tambalacoque developed seeds with tougher and tougher epicarps. It thus became more and more dependent upon mechanical pre-treatment for germination. Perhaps it was only then that the Dodo's interest in the Tambalacoque seeds "took off."

Are the people who wrote this article really as stupid as they seem - or is it more nefarious than that? Are they perhaps trying to mislead and deceive their readers?

Regards,

[bolobaby]

Because nothing else in history could have possibly eaten that fruit except the dodo. Only the dodo.

Makes perfect sense.

[JimRed]

When eventually deposited by the dodo, the seed was able to germinate.

In its own little pocket of fertilizer, too.

[Ben Mugged]

I have a simpler explanation. 300 Million years ago the seeds did not have a hard outer shell and there were few animals to eat their seeds so the tree needed no defense mechanism. As animals evolved, more began eating the seeds so the tree evolved a defense mechanism and through natural selection evolved a relationship with the Dodo to propagate.

Occams razor.....

[TomGuy]

That would have left the Tambalacoque tree with no way to germinate its seeds for some 300 million years.

Perhaps, during that 300 million years, there were other creatures that could consume, crack and pass the seeds.

The scientist already discovered that a turkey could.

[gattaca]

bmp

[DuncanWaring]

I thought this was going to be a Global Warming story.

[Jan_Sobieski]

The Dodo’s Posthumous Message to Mankind

Dodo: "Squawk...Tell those American companies to quit spewing out so much CO2! It is killing US down here...Squawk!!!

[dfwgator]

Too big, to fly
Dodo ugly, so Dodo must die.

[PapaBear3625]

The seeds could be germinated after being eaten by any animal with a gizzard, as demonstrated by substituting the turkey. Some dinosaurs had gizzards.