Bianca Bueno's List: Dodo

Like the search for the most authentic portrait of Shakespeare, the debate over what the dodo looked like is yet to be over. A Dutch illustration going back to 1598 shows a gawky little creature with tiny wings like stumps, looking like a Walt Disney cartoon. In 1651, Jan Savery painted the dodo as an obese, smug bird with ugly, beady eyes. George Edwards painted it as a colourful, glamorous bird in 1759.

But the absolute high note in creativity has to be the Dodo Bird. It’s no longer extinct. Johnson did research in order to revive the poor thing and has formed a huge dodo egg out of milk chocolate. Inside are a dozen baby dodo birds — when the egg is cracked open all the babies fall out.