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35: Don't DeExtinct the Dodo, Humans vs Computers, and Art Forgery

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What We Don't Know About the Dodo

There are a few rough sketches of the dodo that were done by Dutch settlers at the time. They depict the dodo as being a skinnier bird with longer legs, making them quite an agile creature. But even though we don't really know what they look like, we don'treally know what they weighed. Nobody can agree on an estimate right now. So there's a lot we don't know about the dodo. And maybe some companies that are trying to bring back the dodo should at least make sure that they have the correct image of a dodo in mind before they try and bring it back.

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