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Post by surroundx on Feb 23, 2020 0:50:50 GMT
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Post by Melanie on Feb 27, 2020 10:09:18 GMT
D is for Dodo, E is for Extinct A new exhibition 'D is for Dodo, E is for Extinct' opens on 15th February at Portsmouth Museum; it explores the fate of several extinct species and British wildlife now threatened with extinction. Centre piece of the exhibition is a very rare Dodo skeleton - one of only 12 in existence. Dodos are an icon of extinction, having been wiped out by humans less than 100 years after they were first discovered. The new exhibition which runs until 2021 draws on Portsmouth's natural history collections and many specimens are being displayed for the first time in over a decade. There have been five mass extinction events, the last took place about 66 million years ago, a natural catastrophe that wiped out around 75% of the Earth's animals, including dinosaurs. Many scientists believe that we are now in the sixth mass extinction event, the first to be caused by the activities of humans. For more information, visit www.portsmouthcitymuseums.co.ukshapingportsmouth.co.uk/shaping-blog/2547-ports-museum-dodo |
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Post by surroundx on Jul 12, 2020 3:36:02 GMT
Warnett, J. M. et al. (Accepted). The Oxford Dodo. Seeing more than ever before: X-ray micro-CT scanning, specimen acquisition and provenance. Historical Biology. DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2020.1782396 [ Abstract] |
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Post by surroundx on Jul 16, 2020 10:47:23 GMT
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Post by Melanie on Nov 18, 2020 13:02:07 GMT
Paul Carié (1876-1930) was a Mauritian industrialist and naturalist of French descent, who was affiliated with various French scientific societies and carried out research on many aspects of the zoology of the Mascarene islands. However, his work on the extinct fauna of Mauritius is now largely forgotten, probably because he published very little on that topic. Nevertheless, Paul Carié collected numerous specimens of extinct vertebrates, including dodo bones, from the famous Mare aux Songes locality, which once belonged to him. In addition, he bought dodo specimens from sites in the mountains of north-eastern Mauritius from Louis Thirioux, another early twentieth-century collector. A forgotten collection of subfossil bones brought together by Paul Carié was rediscovered in France in 2015. Dodo bones presented by Paul Carié and his descendants are now part of the collections of several museums in France and Switzerland and have been the subject of several recent studies. perma.cc/8WH4-VLSP |
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Post by surroundx on Apr 17, 2021 5:54:39 GMT
Brown, Clare M. (2020). Harry Pasley Higginson and his role in the re-discovery of the dodo ( Raphus cucullatus). Archives of Natural History 47(2): 381-391. [ Abstract] |
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Post by surroundx on Apr 25, 2021 3:15:56 GMT
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Post by surroundx on Apr 25, 2021 3:57:24 GMT
Courtenay Latimer, Marjorie. (1953). A Dodo Egg (Letters to the editors). South African Journal of Science 49(6): 208-210. |
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Post by Melanie on Sept 23, 2021 15:31:12 GMT
Alexandra A.E. van der Geer, Leon P.A.M. Claessens, Kenneth F. Rijsdijk & George A. Lyras 2021 The changing face of the dodo (Aves: Columbidae:Raphus cucullatus): iconography of the Walghvogel of Mauritius. Historical Biology (advance online publication) doi: doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2021.1940996www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2021.1940996Free pdf: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/08912963.2021.1940996ABSTRACT The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) was a large, flightless pigeon endemic to the island of Mauritius (Indian Ocean). Its unusual appearance was recorded in several 17th-century depictions of live or recently killed birds. It became extinct at the end of the 17th century, and in some subsequent accounts, it was even considered as non-existent. Dodo images became rare from the mid-17th century, but its inclusion in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland initiated a change, establishing it as an icon to a much wider public. Since then, illustrations of dodos have been used in all kinds of media, arguably making it the most iconic extinct bird. Here we analyse how the dodo image evolved from 1600 to 2013, using 2D-geometric morphometrics. Our results show that in particular cartoons, animations and logos tend to put an extreme emphasis on the bulging anterior part of the beak, and that the beak is strongly hooked. The variation in dodo images has increased since 1865, culminating in an explosion of shapes during the past decades. The often exaggerated, cartoonesque depiction of the dodo is in line with the long-held but incorrect popular belief that it was a clumsy, tragic bird destined for extinction |
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Post by Melanie on Nov 28, 2021 16:27:17 GMT
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Post by Melanie on Apr 4, 2022 17:31:07 GMT
Monaghan, N.T. (2022) Dodo remains in the National Museum of Ireland - Natural History, DublinJournal of Natural Science Collections 10: 45–59 Dodo remains in some museums are not well known or publicised. The fossil bones in the National Museum of Ireland are described and their provenance discussed. Dodo remains in Trinity College Dublin and those exhibited at a scientific meeting in Dublin in 1866 are also reviewed. The Dublin skeleton is a composite, mostly acquired by the Royal Dublin Society at auction in London in 1866, and mounted by Edward Gerrard junior in 1871. |
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Post by Melanie on Apr 12, 2022 19:27:56 GMT
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Post by koeiyabe on Aug 6, 2023 3:32:29 GMT
 "Atlas of Extinct Animals (in Japanese)" by Radek Maly (2022) |
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Post by Melanie on Nov 16, 2023 21:18:54 GMT
Hume, J.P. (2023) Dr Ayres and the first fossil dodo boneHistorical Biology (advance online publication) doi: 10.1080/08912963.2023.2281577 Five years before the discovery in 1865 of Dodo Raphus cucullatus fossil remains at the Mare aux Songes, Mauritius, local physician Philip Ayres had inadvertently unearthed a fragmented dodo bone from an unknown cave in the Black River District, south of the capital Port Louis. The bone got muddled with fossil material from the dodo’s closest relative, the Solitaire Pezophaps solitaria, before being sent to comparative anatomist Richard Owen at the then British Museum. Denied access by Owen to these specimens when compiling data for their Solitaire osteological monograph, comparative anatomist Alfred Newton and his brother Edward were understandably enraged, which resulted in some bad-tempered correspondence between them and Owen. Rather, inexplicably, Owen never scientifically described the Ayres dodo bone, now ignored for over 170 years, and its identification to element type is still in doubt. Here, I describe the probable cave in which this Dodo fossil was discovered, its true identification, the correspondence between Ayres, the Newton brothers and Owen, and the likely reasons why Owen did not follow up Ayres’s discovery. |
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Post by koeiyabe on Jul 18, 2024 17:20:49 GMT
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Post by koeiyabe on Jul 18, 2024 17:37:39 GMT
I recently visited the new Dodo statue in Montreal. 800 Rue Saint-Jacques, Montréal, QC H3C 1A3    |
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Post by surroundx on Aug 16, 2024 12:29:06 GMT
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Post by Melanie on Aug 18, 2024 16:42:28 GMT
Today I have photographed the Dodo image by Roelant Savery in Kassel.
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Post by Melanie on Aug 24, 2024 19:04:25 GMT
Today I have photographed the Dodo image by Roelant Savery in Kassel. Excerpt from the painting Orpheus charming the animals by Roelant Savery in the Art Gallery Schloss Wilhelmshöhe Kassel  |
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Post by Melanie on Sept 25, 2024 18:41:44 GMT
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