WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DODO BIRD?
recently discovered what is shaping up to be one of the most important fossil finds of our times. Prehistoric bones from many long extinct species such as the dodo bird, the giant tortoise, and the giant parrot, to name just a few, have been found in extremely well preserved condition. Naturalis hopes the dig located near the town of Mare aux Songes on the island of Mauritius will have scientists around the world sitting up in their chairs as they reveal their finds. Naturalis expects that these finds will shed considerable light on the evolutionary history of prehistoric species that developed in this part of the world, which up to this point have had spotty evidence to support the current scientific theories. At only a few thousand years old, Naturalis hails the Mare aux Songes fossil depository to be the youngest undisturbed fossil ecosystem found anywhere on the globe to date. Scientific teams from Mauritius and Europe who were primarily there to study the extinct dodo bird were th
