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The composite skeleton sold for a little more than $621,700.
animals

Sold: A Nearly Complete Skeleton of a Dodo

The remains of the long-extinct, flightless bird from Mauritius are waddling off to a new home.
Jessica Leigh Hester May 28, 2019
A dodo at the Natural History Museum in London.
dodos

What the Dodo Means to Mauritius

The extinct bird is a national symbol. But why?
Meg Charlton December 4, 2018
Frederick William Frohawk's restoration, from Walter Rothschild's 1907 book <em>Extinct Birds</em>.
mystery

Investigating the Cold-Blooded Murder of a Long-Dead Dodo

Who killed the flightless bird at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History?
Natasha Frost April 26, 2018
Oxford, England

Oxford Museum of Natural History

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.
animals

Alice, Oxford, and the Dodo

Annetta Black November 19, 2013
London, England

Natural History Museum of London

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
London, England

Grant Museum of Zoology

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.
Oxford, England

Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.