Mitsumata Blooming By Lake Biwa Breeze

Gone, but not forgotten. 🦤 Today’s Exhibit of the Day is one of the most famous birds in history: the Dodo (Raphus cucullatus). This iconic species is a lesson in extinction. Around the year 1600, Dutch soldiers found the Dodo on Mauritius Island, east of Madagascar. Less than 80 years later, it was gone. Deforestation, hunting, and the introduction of invasive species contributed to the downfall of this flightless bird.

Though it died out before photography, the Dodo’s skeleton offers clues about what this species was like. For example, this bird couldn’t fly—its wings were small for its size, its sternum had no keel (the support birds need for flight muscles), and it had thick leg bones made for walking. You can see a Dodo skeleton in the Museum’s Hall of Biodiversity.

Photo: D. Finnin/ © AMNH

Ad for McDonald’s Breakfast from 1977

scenery in suzhou and hangzhou of china by 陈帆fotochen

Charmian Carr in The Sound of Music (1965) dir. Robert Wise

Marilyn Monroe during the filming of The Prince and The Showgirl, 1956.

Now, Voyager (1942) dir. Irving Rapper

— Khalil Gibran

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1980 Pontiac Trans Am

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1981 Chevrolet Camaro

and all i loved, i loved alone