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The dodo was basically a giant pigeon

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The dodo has achieved legendary status as a tragic icon of extinction, but biologically speaking, it was incredibly unremarkable. Anatomical studies reveal that this famously awkward, flightless bird was literally just a grossly inflated pigeon that forgot how to fly because life on an isolated island made it entirely too comfortable and aggressively lazy.

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