Portuguese sailors discovered the birds in the early 1500s, but the first documented mention of them was not until 1598 by Dutch explorers. The last dodo sighting was in 1662, and they are ...

In fact, the birds were quite the opposite ... University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH), the last known sighting of a dodo was in 1662. The dodos had lived in isolation for many years before ...

The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless, found by 17th-century European sailors on the island of ...