[DOC] [TLE] Dodo - Wikipedia [PAR] The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the 
island of ... The last widely accepted sighting of a dodo was in 1662. ... Strickland 
stated that although not identical, these birds shared many distinguishing ..... the 
only known sketches of living or recently killed specimens drawn on Mauritius. [DOC] [TLE] Why the Dodo Went Extinct - Today I Found Out [PAR] Jun 28, 2013 ... The dodo, or Raphus cucullatus if you want to get fancy, is an extinct species of ... 
was native to the tiny island nation of Mauritius before it sadly died out. ... 
however, scientists plotting the last known sightings of the bird on a graph ... but 
these are vastly outnumbered by ones of dodos looking like they lived... [DOC] [TLE] Dodo Bird: an Extinct Species - Bagheera [PAR] Large numbers of dodo birds were killed for food. Later ... Since the average life 
span of this tree was about 300 years, the last members of the ... They have used 
turkeys to begin a new generation of the tree, which is now called the dodo tree. If 
these seedlings survive to produce their own seeds, the species will be saved. [DOC] [TLE] 11 Things We Know About the Dodo | Mental Floss [PAR] Sep 11, 2013 ... These birds lack wings, in the place of which 3 or 4 blackish ... It had a number of 
scientific namesCarl Linneaus tried to name it Didus ... "inept dodo," in 1766
but the one that stuck was Raphus cucullatus (Latin for ... was the last person to 
spot a dodo on Mauritius and write about it: .... Around The Web. [DOC] [TLE] Why Did New Zealand's Moas Go Extinct? | Science | AAAS [PAR] Mar 17, 2014 ... Humans killed off the giant birds by overhunting, a new study says, ... For millions 
of years, nine species of large, flightless birds known as ... and 13,000 years ago, 
when humans began to spread around the world. ... end of last Ice Age, as the 
key reasons for these species' demise. ..... Scientific Community. [DOC] [TLE] The dodo and scientific fantasies: durable myths of a tough bird [PAR] time for the dodo 24 years later than the confirmed last sighting. ... The dodo (
Raphus cucullatus) has been extinct for more than three centuries. ... compared 
with what we know of some dinosaurs that died out millions of years earlier, what 
... [These birds we called Wallowbirds , on the one hand because, even though 
we... [DOC] [TLE] Dodos, Dimwits, and Fat Arses | Nature @ WSU [PAR] Nov 12, 2014 ... Indeed, the last known observation of a dodo in captivity was for a .... The history 
of the Dodo Raphus cucullatus and the penguin of .... The tambalacoque tree 
species is dying out and the oldest ones still alive are around 300 years old ..... 
The flightless birds on the older island wouldn't have been able to... [DOC] [TLE] The Extinction of the Dodo. (Raphus cucullatus) | Extinct, Birds and ... [PAR] Dodo Bird | Raphus cucullatus This flightless bird was native to the Island of 
Mauritis. ..... It is regarded as the largest land mammal known, w/the largest 
species .... Dodo Bird (last sighted in 1662 and the estimated extinction was 
around 1690)Poe .... These 10 Birds Are as Dead as the Dodo: Recently Extinct 
Bird #5 - The... [DOC] [TLE] Speculation, statistics, facts and the Dodo's extinction date | Anthony ... [PAR] The historical context around the Dodo's extinction is the two periods of .... 
Several authors cited these reports as evidence of Dodo survival until 1688 (the 
last dodaers ... Jackson had no doubts about dodaersen reported in the 1680s, 
considered ... birds called Dodos, applied the name to the remaining flightless 
species. [DOC] [TLE] Establishing extinction dates - The curious case of the Dodo Raphus ... [PAR] Despite mentions of 'dodaersen' in the 1680s, without descriptions these ... 
Raphus. cucullatus. , the iconic large ightless pigeon from Mauritius, ... 1987), 
the generally accepted last record for

Question: Known scientifically as Raphus cucullatus, the last of these flightless birds died around 1680
Answer: Dodo