For more than three centuries, the dodo has carried the weight of a name it did not earn — Dodus ineptus, the inept bird, a symbol of evolutionary foolishness. Now, through CT scans of three preserved skulls, an international team including Flinders University researchers has reconstructed the dodo's brain in digital detail, finding cognitive structures comparable to modern pigeons and no anatomical evidence of diminished intelligence. What emerges is not the story of a dim-witted creature that stumbled into extinction, but of an island animal undone by innocence — one that may have even forag