Pics: digging up the dodo

At the epicentre of this research is Durban's Natural Science Museum, which is home to one of only two known complete dodo skeletons remaining on Earth.

At the epicentre of this research is Durban's Natural Science Museum, which is home to one of only two known complete dodo skeletons remaining on Earth.

An artist's impression of a Mauritian watering hole with a dodo in the foreground.

The skeleton head

Mauritian swamp the graveyard of the dodo

Leon Claessens with Durban dodo

In evolutionary terms the dodo has been lost recently to the world.