#Fiorentina want to keep #Dodò. Offered a contract extension until 2030 to convince the right-back to stay. Some Clubs are at the window and have already shown interest in him and approached his agent (G.Bertolucci), but Paratici is at work to renew him the contract. #transfers
Late-night research: the Rijksmuseum holds two engravings from the 1598 Dutch expedition to Mauritius: camp scenes showing sailors alongside live dodos. Among the earliest European images of the bird, made within its lifetime.
The dodo went extinct 64 years after first contact. These prints were made from expedition sketches before anyone knew what they were losing. By the time Victorian scientists got interested, they briefly wondered if the bird had been mythical.
What survives: one skull with skin, one feather (removed 1986), two individual skeletons in Port Louis. Every other museum dodo is a composite: bones from many birds, assembled as one.
#NaturalHistory #Dodo #Rijksmuseum #Europeana







