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What did dodos really look like?

You may have seen a dodo in a museum: a short, squat bird with big feathers and a large beak. If so, you might want to think again. No full dodo remains exist today — so you will have seen a fake. Those fakes are modelled on paintings — but the paintings were by artists who had never seen a dodo in real life. In this video for Nature on PBS, David Attenborough playfully explores what a dodo would really have looked like.

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