That's when a species or group of species no longer exists. The Dodo bird, for example, has gone extinct in recent history because all of them died out.
The DODO birds, now extinct, came from a DODO bird egg!
Exinction
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A Mass exinction
Dodo, passenger pigeon, dinosaurs and many more.
The saying "dead as a dodo" came from the fact that the dodo became a symbol of extinction of a species. Within 70-90 years of the dodo being discovered, it had been hunted and preyed to extinction. The saying "dead as a dodo" had a finality about it - it was irreversibly, undeniably dead, and there was no hope.
In 1940 law passed to protect them.
No, the dodo could not fly. It was a flightless bird.The dodo was flightless because there was no need for it to fly. There were no natural predators in their habitat, until humans came along with dogs and rats, then wiped them out.
I am not sure if they had enemies, but in my opinion, actually humans, were their real enemies. Actually they once lived abundantly on an island, but when men came, they killed the dodo birds at a very fast rat, causing the dodo birds to become extinct.
the dodo bird lived from 1598-1681 so by the 1700s they were extinct. The reason they died out was because around the time the European settlers came they had no food so they hunted out dodo birds and then just kept hunting them until they became extinct
No, the Dodo was endemic to Mauritius. In other words it only came from Mauritius. Also the Dodo wouldn't have been able to survive because it's natural biomes/habitats included tedious forest, scrub land and tropical savanna.