'The dodo is an icon, if not the icon, of conservation biology,' researcher Neil Gostling told Newsweek.
Scientists have set the record straight on the scientific history of the dodo more than 300 years after the bird is thought to have gone extinct.As detailed in a paper published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, a team of researchers undertook the most comprehensive review yet of the dodo's taxonomy and that of its closest relative, the Rodrigues Island solitaire, which is also extinct.'The dodo is an icon, if not the icon, of conservation biology.
'We went through the literature and looked for all the mentions of the and how they were grouped together. Some of this was obvious, and what we knew, but because the species were named before the rules of nomenclature were formalized, we don't have the specimens in museums to which names are tied,' Gostling said.'As such, we have tidied up the last 400 years of their taxonomy, clarifying those taxa that existed and those that did not.
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