The dodo is one of the most iconic—and misunderstood—extinct animals. Four hundred years after its extinction, the popular narrative remains that the flightless bird was simply too dumb, slow ...

The dodo lived in Mauritius for 25 million years but, along with the solitaire on Rodrigues, was gone in less than 100 years of meeting humans," he said.

But the dodo-as-warning idea took hold at this time, too. In 1874, Charles Darwin and his scientific colleagues cited the dodo in a plea to Mauritius’s colonial governor to save local tortoises.

For Shapiro, doing the dodo justice means making sure it has a home to go to. Last year, she took a trip with one of her sons to Mauritius.

Phineas and Ferb is coming back for new episodes later this Summer, and the original creators behind it all haven’t ruled out a return to the ten year time skip seen in the original series ...