If you want a 95% complete Dodo skeleton then you are in luck: one comes up for auction in November, in Sussex.
The dodo has become a byword for extinction since it was wiped out in its only native habitat on the island of Mauritius in the 17th Century, just a few decades after it was first discovered.
Very few remains of the large squat birds are in existence and only one complete skeleton from a single individual is thought to survive.
However, the first dodo skeleton on the market in nearly 100 years will soon be available at auction.
Summers Place Auctions, a Sussex-based specialist in natural history auctions, has announced the sale of a 95 per cent complete composite skeleton of a dodo – thought to be the first such sale since 1914.
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The composite skeleton is 95 per cent complete, with one set of claws and part of the skull modelled from clay (Summers Place Auctions)
Dare I say, still more original than most of the warbirds out there on the circuit…?
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August 25, 2016 at 8:40 pm