Dutch scientists announce major find of Dodo bones

Scientists today said they found a major cache of bones and likely complete skeletons of the long-extinct dodo bird, which could help them reconstruct what the bird may have looked like.

The find is significant because no complete skeleton of a single Dodo bird has ever been retrieved from a controlled archaeological site in Mauritius. The last known stuffed bird was destroyed in a 1755 fire at the Ashmolean Museum in London, leaving only drawings of the bird to go on.