These include the Tasmanian tiger, flightless dodo bird and wooly mammoth.

这些动物包括塔斯马尼亚虎、不会飞的渡渡鸟和猛犸象。

Ah yes, earlier I asked you: when did the dodo bird become extinct?

好的，一开始我问你渡渡鸟是什么时候灭绝的？

Recently, the company said it wanted to bring back the dodo bird: a large, flightless bird.

最近，该公司表示，其希望复活渡渡鸟：一种不会飞的大鸟。

And there are other extinct creatures scientists could bring back as well, like the Tasmanian tiger or the dodo bird.

科学家们还可以让其他已经灭绝的生物复活，比如塔斯马尼亚虎和渡渡鸟。

Could this be a baby dodo bird?

这可能是一只小渡渡鸟吗？

When we think of extinction, we usually picture large, charismatic creatures, like the saber-toothed tiger, the wooly mammoth or the even the dodo bird.

当我们想到灭绝, 我们通常想象大型, 那些有魅力的生物, 比如剑齿虎, 毛茸茸的猛犸象或者渡渡鸟。

Some 12,000 miles of the southeastern coast of Africa in the middle of the Indian Ocean lies the island where the iconic dodo bird once roamed.

在印度洋中部、距非洲东南海岸约12000英里的地方，坐落着标志性的渡渡鸟曾经出没的岛屿。

These first human inhabitants of the island found the dodo birds a convenient source of meat, although not everyone liked the taste.

岛上的第一批人类居民发现渡渡鸟是一种方便的肉类来源，尽管不是每个人都喜欢这种味道。

The dodo bird has been extinct for a very long time – that means there have been no living members of the species for quite a long time.

渡渡鸟已经灭绝很长时间了，这意味着已经有很长时间没有活着的渡渡鸟了。

You can think perhaps of the dodo bird, which became extinct in the eighteenth century, and even today there are animals that are becoming extinct.

你可以想想 18 世纪灭绝的渡渡鸟，即使在今天， 也有一些动物正在灭绝。

Several Extinct Species Could Be Resurrected By 2030, several extinct species could be restored such as the woolly mammoth, the dodo bird, and the saber tooth tiger.

几种已经灭绝的物种可能会复活 到 2030 年，几种已经灭绝的物种可能会复活，例如猛犸象、渡渡鸟和剑齿虎。