The dodo is one of the most famous extinct animals, but no knew how the beast looked exactly. Dutch scientists have been in there with new 3D scanning techniques change, according to the AD
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“The dodo is depicted as silly, obese beast that once is stupid,” said Kenneth Rijsdijk physical geographer at the University Amsterdam. “But that picture is off the table.”
For the first time researchers have been able to reconstruct the exact skeleton of the dodo. “The skeletons in museums are made up of all different dodos. Sometimes those skeletons are so that they fall over unstable. Not exactly true to nature, “said Rijsdijk. Was a skeleton in Mauritius, the only place where dodos occurred, says that it is one dodo.
With special 3D equipment scanned the Dutch bone to bone. That took years
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