[DOC] [TLE] Dodo - Wikipedia [PAR] The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the 
island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. The dodo's closest 
genetic relative was the also extinct Rodrigues solitaire, the two forming the 
subfamily Raphinae of the family of pigeons and doves. ... Though the dodo has 
historically been considered fat and clumsy, it is now... [DOC] [TLE] Moa - Wikipedia [PAR] The moa were nine species (in six genera) of flightless birds endemic to New 
Zealand. The two ..... It has been long suspected that the pairs of species of moa 
described as ... Despite the bird's extinction, the high yield of DNA available from 
recovered .... Several remarkable examples of moa remains have been found 
which... [DOC] [TLE] Extinct Dodo Related to Pigeons, DNA Shows [PAR] Feb 28, 2002 ... The dodo, poster bird for species extinction, has a pitiful reputation as a ... Since 
the mid-1800s, the dodo has been classified as part of the family that includes 
pigeons ... Museum of Natural History, England, confirms that the bird belongs ... 
floating debris like trees or clumps of seaweed, remains unknown. [DOC] [TLE] Digging for Dodos - The New Yorker [PAR] Jan 22, 2007 ... Julian Hume, a British paleontologist, is one of the world's leading ... Mauritius, 
which has an area of seven hundred square miles and a ... In 2001, Shapiro 
analyzed DNA extracted from dodo and solitaire remains and showed that the 
living bird genealogically closest to them was the Nicobar pigeon, found... [DOC] [TLE] Dodo DNA sort of found in a way - Jasper Fforde [PAR] DNA yields dodo family secrets Dead it may be, but the dodo's DNA still has a ... 
the similarly extinct solitaire bird, and from another 35 kinds of living pigeon ... All 
that remains of the dodo is a head and foot at Oxford, a foot in the British Museum 
... The dodo's odd shape has been the reason for the historical confusion about... [DOC] [TLE] The Sixth Extinction - Species Info - Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) [PAR] Aug 17, 2010 ... A web page from The Extinction Website with a species profile of the ... Order, 
Columbiformes (pigeons) ... Museum of Natural History 'Naturalis' in Leiden, the 
Netherlands. ... This image has been licensed under the Creative Commons .... 
including remains of Dodo chicks and a very rare part of the bird's... [DOC] [TLE] The Oxford Dodo. Part 2: from curiosity to icon and its role in ... [PAR] Mar 10, 2016 ... The Tradescant or Oxford Dodo has played an important role in ... head and foot 
confirmed its columbid (pigeons and doves) affinities. ... Part 1: the museum 
history of the Tradescant dodo: ownership, ... solitaire, and other extinct birds of 
the islands Mauritius, Rodriguez, ..... It belongs to the Pigeon family. [DOC] [TLE] Dodo - Encyclopedia - Scribd [PAR] The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is an extinct flightless bird that ... short keratinous 
portion of the beak. a rail. as in dodos. otherwise known only in pigeons. with .... 
to birds in captivity. and no usable DNA has been extracted from subfossil 
remains. ..... II. was long displayed in the British Museum next to Savery's 
Edwards' Dodo... [DOC] [TLE] Part 3 - Wild Bird Store [PAR] Part 3: Can Extinct Species be Brought Back? ... By the last decade of the 19th 
century, Passenger Pigeons had all but disappeared from ... ice and shipped to 
the national museum, the Smithsonian Institute, where it remains to this day. .... 
Ancient DNA has been broken apart by enzymes and oxygen, zapped with 
ultraviolet... [DOC] [TLE] Cousins Across The Centuries | The Freeborn Times [PAR] Jan 30, 2015 ... If you had been walking the narrow, cobbled streets of ... 1638  was housed the 
one and only irrefutably proved dodo to make it alive to the UK. ... his encounter 
with the now famously extinct bird in a manuscript commenting on ... presumed to 
be part of the Columbidae family (pigeons and doves)

Question: DNA from the remains of this extinct bird at a British museum proved that it had been part of the pigeon family
Answer: the dodo