The Oxford University Museum of Natural History is a museum displaying many of the University of Oxford's natural history specimens, located on Parks Road in Oxford, England. It also contains a lectur
Front view of the museum
The Dinosaur Gallery of the museum before renovation in 2023–24
The interior from the gallery level.
Roof and dinosaur exhibition hall
Dodo
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The dodo is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to Mauritius, an island east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. The dodo's closest relative was the also-extinct and flightless Rodrigues solita
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
…rights to Marconi, who was by then already laying the foundations of modern wireless communication systems. The museum displays a 1651 painting of a dodo by Flemish artist, Jan Savery, along with remains of an actual dodo and several models. Charles Dodgson, better known by his pen-name Lewis Carroll…
Oxford Dodo display
The Nicobar pigeon is the closest living relative of the dodo.
1848 lithograph of the Oxford specimen's foot, which has been used to sample DNA for genetic analyses
1601 engraving showing Dutch activities on the shore of Mauritius and the first published depiction of a dodo on the left (2, called "Walchvoghel")