Graham Cowles, the palaeornithologist who has died aged 92, was head of bird collections at the Natural History Museum. In 1974, on the island of Réunion, he discovered the remains of an extinct semi-flightless bird that proved pivotal in solving the mystery of the quasi-mythical “white dodo”.
Less than 200 years after humanity stumbled upon its habitat in the Mascarene Islands, the dodo bird was completely lost. Today, the dodo is recognized as one of the most famous symbols of human-caused extinction, according to Britannica. However, in recent years, scientists have been toying with the idea of bringing this bird, and other.
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