Was the dodo really that dumb?
In real life, the dodo will not have been a fat and weak, but a strong, sleek and muscular animal that could walk or even run fast. That's what paleontologist Leon Claessens discovered when he reconstructed a skeleton with a 3D scanner in 2015, according to the Dutch magazine Quest.
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