Went extinct partly because it walked up to sailors and just stood there, which is a fairly poor strategy.
Fun fact: Its closest living relative is the Nicobar pigeon, a shimmering green bird that can still fly.
Six-foot legs, seven vertebrae in the neck, and a tongue that could lick its own ears if it fancied.
Fun fact: Their two-metre neck has the same number of vertebrae as a human's — just seven.