As for the dodo, the Nicobar Pigeon is the closest living relative, and the Solitaire, a type of extinct bird that was found ...

including the Nicobar pigeon and the Rodrigues solitaire, which is another species of extinct flightless bird. So, the dodo won’t be an exact clone but rather a species with edited DNA.

One of the most infamous cautionary tales of humanity's follies, the reasons behind the extinction of the dodo are even more depressing than you may realize.

“Eventually I got permission to take a sample and figured out that a dodo is a type of pigeon and its closest living relative ...