The
skeleton was pieced together using bones from different dodos birds
They were
mostly up from a marshland by a naturalist around in the 19th century
It is
currently in private hands and will go up for auction next month
The
specimen is expected to fetch between £400,000 and £600,000
PUBLISHED: 17:57,
26 April 2019 | UPDATED: 17:57, 26 April 2019
A
skeleton made up of bones from a number of dodo birds is expected to fetch up
to £600,000 ($778,000) at an upcoming Christie's auction in London.
The
specimen has been pieced together from bones discovered in Mauritius in the
early 19th century.
It will go
up for sale next month with a number of other specimens from around the world
including a fossil of the extinct marine reptile Ichthyosaur.
Dodo
skeletons from the same bird is extremely rare, and only one dodo specimen in
the world has an intact head.
Dr Julian
Hume, a British avian palaeontologist, said: 'More has been written about the
dodo than any other bird, a true icon of extinction, yet virtually nothing is
known about it in life.
'Apart
from a few bones, a handful of inadequate historical illustrations and
accounts, and some 300 years after its demise, this emblematic bird continues
to prompt wonder and debate.'
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