Dodo
70 cm (2.297 ft)
Standing height
The flightless bird of Mauritius, extinct since the late 1600s. About 70 cm tall. Older accounts say about a metre.
Published
How big is that?
70 cm is 2.4 times an A4 sheet and 40% of an adult man.
Dodo is the 2nd smallest of the 31 Prehistoric Giants objects, and the 22nd smallest of the 109 objects across all three SizeItUp games.
Closest in size from the other games: Bowling pin (Ten-pin) (Classic), 38.1 cm tall and Perseverance (Mars rover) (Cosmic Scale), 3 m long.
Size comparison
To scale, smallest to largest: Dodo in orange beside the Prehistoric Giants objects nearest in size, in teal.
| Object | Size | vs Dodo |
|---|---|---|
| ArchaeopteryxThe Jurassic feathered dinosaur often called the first bird, measured nose to tail. | 50 cm long | 71% of the size |
| Dodo | 70 cm tall | – |
| Saber-toothed cat (Smilodon fatalis)The Ice Age cat of the La Brea tar pits. Measured at the shoulder. | 1 m tall | 1.4× bigger |
| Lion (Adult male)Today's big-cat benchmark, measured at the shoulder. | 1.2 m tall | 1.7× bigger |
In other units
| Millimetres | 700 |
|---|---|
| Centimetres | 70 |
| Metres | 0.7 |
| Inches | 27.56 |
| Feet | 2.297 |
How it's measured
Standing height. Natural History Museum (Oxford's museum gives about 1 m).
Sources
- nhm.ac.uk: They likely stood about 70 centimetres tall.
- oumnh.ox.ac.uk (supporting): Oxford University Museum of Natural History: about a metre tall.
Checked against the source on .
Could you have guessed it by eye?
Dodo is one of the objects in Prehistoric Giants, a daily size comparison game: you stretch a shape to the size you think is right beside one you know.