9. The last dodo bird was publicly spotted hundreds of years ago, falling extinct generations ago and gaining a near-mythical status in history. This claim is false. The dodo bird has been long extinct, but it still has relatives living in the world today. 9.What trait to the Stick Insect, Goldfish, Kingsnake, and Dog all have in common? The kiwi, the closest living relative of the elephant bird, also has an absent optic lobe, nocturnal behavior and very poor eyesight. In The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life, it states that Phorusrhacos' closest living relative is the secretary bird. The last dodo bird was publicly spotted hundreds of years ago, falling extinct generations ago and gaining a near-mythical status in history. Its closest genetic relative, the Rodrigues solitaire, has been extinct for nearly as long—but on islands around the Indian Ocean, the iconic flightless bird has a close cousin that’s very much still alive. American Bald Eagle. Behind the scenes.



Phorusrhacos appears in the Battle of the Beasts online game where it is a playable fighter or its parts could be used to create an entirely new creature. Argentavis magnificens possessed a wingspan probably somewhere between 23-30 feet, that’s about 2-3 times longer than that of the living bird with the largest wingspan –the Wandering Albatross. This feathered flightless bird's closest relative is the ornithomimosaurus, who had a similarly long, slender neck and moved like modern day ostriches. Genetically within the family of pigeons and doves, it was most closely related to the also extinct dodo of the nearby island Mauritius, the two forming the subfamily Raphinae.The Nicobar pigeon is their closest living genetic relative.

The Rodrigues solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Rodrigues, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. The Closest Relative Is the Nicobar Pigeon ... genetic analysis of preserved specimens has confirmed that its closest living relative is the Nicobar pigeon, a much smaller flying bird that ranges across the southern Pacific. 8.If a new species of honeycreeper were discovered, and it had a short, straight beak, which bird in this puzzle would likely be its closest living relative?