CT scans reveal dodo's hidden sensory world, overturning centuries of myths

For centuries, the dodo has served as shorthand for nature's failures — a creature whose extinction seemed written into its own dim-witted design. Now, CT scans of the world's only two complete dodo skulls have quietly dismantled that myth, revealing instead a bird of refined senses, attuned to smell, touch, and the liminal hours of dusk and dawn. The evidence, drawn from bone impressions left by a brain long since vanished, suggests not a failed animal but a specialist — one whose sophisticated adaptations to island life were no match, in the end, for the disruption that followed human arriva