Part one of three! Follow me on twitter @theatlaspro Support me on patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/atlaspro Paleogeographic maps and animations by C. R. Scotese, for more information: https://www.earthbyte.org/paleomap-paleoatlas-for-gplates Further Reading / Works Cited: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2020/november/invasive-species-impact-on-island-flora-and-fauna.html https://archive.org/details/songofdodoisland00quam https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2013.3019 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo#/media/File:Owen_dodo_reconstruction.jpg https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00005423 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2844594 https://www.geo.arizona.edu/Antevs/ecol438/lect13.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3281323.stm https://web.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Island_Biogeography.html https://cgab.yale.edu/projects/ancient-dna/extinct-dwarf-elephants-mediterranean-islands-past https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Extinct_Birds https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/the-lost-world-of-the-dodo.html https://www.gwern.net/docs/genetics/selection/2018-tucci.pdf https://gsas.yale.edu/news/what-killed-giant-elephant-bird-madagascar