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Illustration of a dodo bird, Raphus cucullatus, showing a large, flightless bird with a robust body, thick legs, and a hooked beak, with a size scale indicating a height of about 40 centimeters.

What are the Different Types of Extinction?

Black and white engraving of a dodo bird standing on the ground, with foliage in the background.

What Happened to the Dodo Bird?

Illustrations of four extinct species: a dodo, a Tasmanian wolf or thylacine, a passenger pigeon, and a mamo, with the birds shown larger for detail. Scientific names are included.

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What are the Different Types of Extinction?

What are the Different Types of Extinction?

The die-off of the dinosaurs is different from the extinction of the dodo.

Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

What Happened to the Dodo Bird?

What Happened to the Dodo Bird?

Overview of the dodo.

Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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Illustration of a dodo bird, Raphus cucullatus, showing a large, flightless bird with a robust body, thick legs, and a hooked beak, with a size scale indicating a height of about 40 centimeters.

Dodo

Illustration of an adult dodo (Raphus cucullatus).

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Christine McCabe

Black and white engraving of a dodo bird standing on the ground, with foliage in the background.

Dodo

Black and white engraving of the extinct dodo.

© Nastasic—DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images

Illustrations of four extinct species: a dodo, a Tasmanian wolf or thylacine, a passenger pigeon, and a mamo, with the birds shown larger for detail. Scientific names are included.

extinct species

Some species made extinct by humans.

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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