Scientists Find Preserved Dodo Bird Bones

nz17 writes "BBC News is reporting that a team of Dutch and Mauritian scientists have found what appears to be a mass dodo bird grave. From the article: 'Little is known about the dodo, a famous flightless bird thought to have become extinct in the 17th century. No complete skeleton has ever been found in Mauritius, and the last full set of bones was destroyed in a fire at a museum in Oxford, England, in 1755.'"

Comments

Huh

[josteos]

I didn't know SCO was headquartered on Mauritius.....

Well

[Anonymous Coward]

Take that DNA, clone those fuckers, raise 'em on a farm, and sell me some Dodo McNuggets!

Re:Well

[antifoidulus]

According to the Europeans who came to the island, they were not all that good. From the wikipedia article:

There is a persistent myth that Dodos were eaten as food for the long voyages between the Cape of Good Hope and Asia, but neither historical nor archeological findings corroborate this. Dodos were hardly ever eaten by the Portuguese, who found the birds hard to eat and very messy. Dutch records concur. The Dutch settlers called it the Walgvogel ("disgusting bird") for the unpleasant taste and texture of the meat. No Dodo bones have been found in the old middens of the Dutch fort Frederik Hendrik.

Still, I would like to eat one just to add it to my list of animals whose flesh I have made part of myself. So far I have eaten cow, pig, chicken, duck, deer, reindeer, whale, kangaroo, pigeon, cornish hen, and ostrich. I need to eat more!

Re:Well

[tomhudson]

Still, I would like to eat one just to add it to my list of animals whose flesh I have made part of myself. So far I have eaten cow, pig, chicken, duck, deer, reindeer, whale, kangaroo, pigeon, cornish hen, and ostrich. I need to eat more!

Just eat a cheap hotdog - you'll be able to add all sorts of organic flesh to your list with every bite.

Re:SEND IN THE CLONES!!!

[Xugumad]

Well, we kinda were the reason they became extinct...

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/expeditions/treasu re_fossil/Treasures/Dodo/dodo.html?dinos

Re:Not what I thought this was

[ari_j]

Well, let me stoke your interest a bit. They found life on Mars long ago, but have kept it under wraps. It's all part of a vast right-wing conspiracy. Apollo 18 was not canceled, it was rather simply rescheduled and sent to Mars by President Reagan. When they arrived, the cosmonauts (American astronauts could not be trusted to keep it a secret, whereas Russians would never be believed when they returned, anyhow) found many fairly recent decaying dodo bird corpses. It turns out that they never went extinct - they were just banished to Mars by Napoleon. But the conservative whack-jobs running our country and all of its media have covered it up.

I'd like to tell you more, but there's someone at the door.

Re:"To challenge our faith"? More like a flood

[commodoresloat]

Now this flood deal, the science of Waterworld aside, where did all that water go?

Intelligent flushing?