In real life, the dodo lost. After the Dutch settled its home, the island of Mauritius, in the 17th century, it took less then three decades for the bird, which laid only one egg a year ...

For years, TikTok users have shared dozens of videos claiming that the U.S. "got caught hiding the last dodo bird." Some of these videos made the specific claim that a man discovered the U.S.

The species was first documented by Dutch sailors around the year 1600. But by 1681, they were wiped off the map. The dodo bird was pushed to extinction by deforestation, overhunting and the ...