[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

My guess would be that they became extinct because they were quite tasty.

[small voice in the wilderness]

The dodo was mocked by Portuguese and Dutch colonialists for its size and apparent lack of fear of armed, hungry hunters.

???

"Hey boys, lookie here. It's a Dodo Bird...or should I say DooDoo bird....bwhahahaha....where'd you git those big wings anyway?...don't do ya much good, 'cause you fly right into those Dodo traps ever time, don't ya?...bwhahahaha...I hear there's a place called Buffalo that's looking for birds like you...bwhahahaha...dumb birds...bwhaha..."

[apillar]

Maybe they will find some DNA and try to bring them back from extinction...

So I kind find out if they tasted good firsthand !

[Oztrich Boy]

"The Dodo? It's dead, Jim"

[Zeroisanumber]

This sort of extinction happened everywhere that humans settled throughout Polynesia. Many species of delectable, stupid, flightless birds became extinct within a few years of humans colonizing their islands.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

The international multidisciplinary team assembled specially for the current expedition includes archaeologists, palaeontologists, and sedimentologists from 15 different institutes in various countries.

And not a chef or saucier amongst them. This makes it highly unlikely that they will find anything worth eating.

[FairOpinion]

GGG PING?

[edpc]

.....hunted to extinction within 200 years of Europeans landing on Mauritius.

Bush's ancestors fault!

[WestVirginiaRebel]

"Yes, sir! You've found the last dodo!"

[Leo Carpathian]

The find includes a complete hip and four leg bones for a single animal. Bones from numerous other dodos were also unearthed, such as skull parts, beak bones, vertebrae, wing bones and toe bones.

Sooo, they stumbled on garbage dump behind Kentucky Fried Dodo? What, bones no good? Dogs no eat?
Lazy bird, didn't bother to fly, extinckted like RATs are heading to.

[nralife]

"The bird is thought to have been hunted to extinction by European settlers"


From my reading, IIRC, they became extinct in large part, from feral pigs introduced to the island.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks FairO'.

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[calex59]

If they know they were hunted to extinction then how could this skeleton give them valuable clues "as tto the cause of extinction? Is there a stupid test a person must pass to become an archeologist? Score below a certain level in reasoning skills and you automatically get a degree?

[Freedom_Fighter_2001]

Al Gore died? How sad!

At least they found him.