Mauritian dodobones of most importance to the world

Naturalis scientists participated in the international dodo-expedition team in 2008 to Mauritius. An enormous amount of material from the dodo-massgrave in Mare aux Songes has been searched to find 54 dodobones belonging to at least two individuals, including very rare small bones likes nails, toebones and wingbones. These bones, some of them less than a millimeter long, make this dodo collection the most important in the world. At least 3000 other bones have been discovered among which the extinct Mauritian goose, extinct giant skink, birds, bats and giant tortoises.