Dodos were apparently delicious. They were easy to hunt and they were hunted and eaten to extinction. The very few specimens left (3 according to a previous commenter) are of poor quality. Mammoth carcasses have been frozen in ice or “bogs” and in those cold low oxygen environments the specimens have been able to be very well preserved.
Fuzzylogic1977 t1_iwbqapa wrote
Reply to How do we have more woolly mammoth DNA than dodo DNA if woolly mammoths died off thousands of years ago and dodos only died off a few hundred? by Memer9456
Dodos were apparently delicious. They were easy to hunt and they were hunted and eaten to extinction. The very few specimens left (3 according to a previous commenter) are of poor quality. Mammoth carcasses have been frozen in ice or “bogs” and in those cold low oxygen environments the specimens have been able to be very well preserved.