Scientists fly into raptures over flightless dodo


	Scientists fly into raptures over flightless dodo

dorine

6-29-2007 2:54 PM

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dodo, extinction, animals, dna

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Quote: "Then you can work out how it actually got to Mauritius, because it must have originally flown here before evolving into flightlessness and the big, fat bird that we know," he said.

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       File picture shows a Dodo bird specimen at the Sydney Antiques and Fine Arts Fair...  </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070629/sc_nm/mauritius_dodo_dc"><P>
BOIS CHERI, Mauritius (Reuters) - 
The remains of a dodo
found in a cave beneath bamboo and tea plantations in <SPAN id="lw_1183130958_0">Mauritius</SPAN>
offer the best chance yet to learn about the extinct flightless
bird, a scientist said on Friday.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070629/sc_nm/mauritius_dodo_dc"><P>The discovery was made earlier this month in the Mauritian
highlands but the location was kept secret until the recovery
of the skeleton, nicknamed "Fred," was completed on Friday.
Four men guarded the site overnight.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070629/sc_nm/mauritius_dodo_dc"><P>Julian Hume, a paleontologist at Britain's Natural History
Museum, told Reuters the remains were likely to yield excellent
DNA and other vital clues, because they were found intact, in
isolation, and in a cave.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070629/sc_nm/mauritius_dodo_dc"><P>"The geneticists who want to get their hands on this will
be skipping down the street," he said, after bringing the last
of the remains to the surface.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070629/sc_nm/mauritius_dodo_dc">the remains should provide the first decent specimens of
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