What do you know about the dodo? Whatever it is, you're probably wrong. The dodo's one of history's most misunderstood creatures, living or extinct.

The trusting, tubby, flightless bird became a sitting duck for hunters and easy prey for introduced species such as cats and dogs. The last dodo is thought to have been hunted in the 1660s.

The dodo became so big, and so flightless, that they made for easy prey when humans arrived in the 17th century. The ungainly birds had no fear of humans, and went extinct within a few decades.

Image credits: Wasfi Akab #2 Dodo Bird - Extinct 1662 The island of Mauritius, located east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, was once the only home of the dodo.

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