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There’s perhaps no species more emblematic of extinction than the dodo. The flightless bird disappeared from the island of Mauritius—a speck of land in the middle of the Indian Ocean, some 500 miles from Madagascar—in the late 1600s, following Dutch colonization.
About 300 years later, three other endemic birds found on Mauritius were facing a similar fate.