On first inspection, the Cuban blue-headed quail dove doesn't look like much: drab brown feathers, a slender beak, and a ...

Researchers sequenced the DNA of Cuban blue-headed quail dove, expecting clear origins. Instead, they found it has no close relatives.

including the Nicobar pigeon and the Rodrigues solitaire, which is another species of extinct flightless bird. So, the dodo won’t be an exact clone but rather a species with edited DNA.