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Resurrecting the dodo: “Step oneâ€
Drilling DNA out of the only dodo specimen left with soft tissue is daunting. Prof Beth Shapiro, a biologist from the University of California, Santa Cruz, explains what we know about the dodo genome.
(Image: Oxford dodo specimen, Credit: Oxford University Museum of Natural History.)
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