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World Service,1 min

Resurrecting the dodo: “Step one”

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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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