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The dodo is a giant, flightless, extinct pigeon that lived on a tropical island in the Indian Ocean named Mauritius. It is famous for dying out and so was given a reputation for being very dumb. You might remember dodos from Disney’s Ice Age: Or from Alice in Wonderland

In February (2016) a paper was published online in Current Biology that described the nasal passages of an extinct wildebeest-like mammal, Rusingoryx. You may remember wildebeests from The Lion King: ‘Oh, look sire the herd is on the move’: © Disney This extinct form is different, though, in a rather unique