De-Extinction: The Who, How, When, And Why Of Bringing Extinct Species Back To Life
In 1598 , the Dutch land on the island of Mauritius , just off the coast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean . Here , they were met by a monolithic population of flightless , uninstructed , meaty birds . Salivating , the sailors happily began kill them , kindly contribute the name “ fogey ” upon the shell - shocked animals . Over the next several X , humans , and the rats , pigs , monkeys and other animals they bring with them , made short work of the small island and the total species of the dodo , fork up it nonextant by 1662 ....