Inside the Not-So-Dumb Head of the Dodo Bird

Cranial scans of the dodo bird reveal a brain equipped with clever sensory adaptations, per Nautilus. The findings challenge the long-held stereotype that the extinct species was intellectually dim. The dodo—the byword for foolishness—appears to have been specialized rather than simply stupid.

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