Syndactyly is the medical term for webbed or conjoined fingers or toes. In most cases the fingers are connected only by skin. It is rare that the bones are also fused together.
Dodo birds became extinct because of the combination of overhunting by humans and non-native predators that were introduced by humans to their native island. Dodo birds only inhabited the island of Mauritius, where they had no natural predators. Accordingly, the dodo bird had lost the power of flight and possessed few defensive behaviors by the time humans arrived on the island.
In fact, the bones and skin samples at the Museum in Oxford are probably the most complete set of remains held by any museum around the world. This photograph shows the foot bones of the dodo. It belonged to a dodo that was brought to London in the 1630s.e all know the dodo is extinct, but did you know that there are very few remains of the dodo left to look at today?