"The dodo was quite a brown-grey bird, and during the moulting it had downy, black plumage," explained Dr Angst. "What we found using our scientific methods fit perfectly with what the sailors had ...
They can be found reconstructed in museums on the ... Early observers on Rodrigues called the solitaire the "Rodrigues Dodo". But the two birds were really subtly different evolutionary outcomes ...
Since the children’s book is a work of fiction, perhaps you may have thought that the dodo bird itself was also spun from the imagination of a creative writer. And you wouldn’t be alone.