00:00 The Dodo bird went extinct in just 64 years after the last known bird was sighted on the island of Mauritius.

01:52 The dodo bird, scientifically known as the Raphous Cochalatus, was a large flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius and became extinct after the Dutch settled on the island in 1598.

03:24 The dodo bird was easy to hunt and had no fear of humans because it never evolved to have predators, leading to questions about how it ended up on a remote island.

05:02 The dodo bird was shipped to several places around the world as gifts, with as many as 11 dodos making it to locations outside of Mauritius, but the popular myth that they were hunted to extinction for food is not true, as they weren't actually that tasty and once a settlement was established on the island they weren't hunted as much, with the real culprit being a combination of non-native species and deforestation.

06:30 The last verified dodo sighting occurred in 1662, and the preserved remains of dodos in European museums were mostly lost over time, with only a few examples remaining today.

08:05 The dodo bird's skeleton has been reconstructed from bones of multiple birds, and the only complete dodo skeleton in existence was found in 1904; interest in the dodo was revived in the 19th century and it has since become an iconic symbol of Mauritius, with talk of potentially reviving the species in the future.

09:36 The host of the podcast is making a joke about a certain bird, but it is not clear what bird they are referring to.