研究者借助前沿AI模型Opus 5.5在荷兰东印度公司档案中进行深度语义搜索，发现了一份1615年的船舶日志，记载了关键的渡渡鸟目击证据1。根据这份由Wapen van Amsterdam号船队记录的日志，该船队在1615年4月于毛里求斯登陆时"捕获了许多乌龟、渡渡鸟（dodeersen）和一些鹅与鹦鹉"1。这份文献来自船舶日志作者Isbrant Cornelisz van Petten，填补了渡渡鸟历史记录中1611-1616年的重要空白1。
同时，研究者还发现了可能与莫卧儿皇帝贾汗吉尔的渡渡鸟收藏相关的新线索1。1616年葡萄牙耶稣会士在毛里求斯记载的一只"鸵鸟"可能实际上是渡渡鸟1。这一发现与贾汗吉尔皇帝的宫廷画家Ustad Mansur绘制的现存最准确的渡渡鸟肖像形成了重要连接1。研究者已积累了十多年的专业知识，计划出版关于早期现代时期动物灭绝的专著1。
Researchers have employed the advanced AI model Opus 5.5 to conduct deep semantic searches through Dutch East India Company archives, uncovering a previously unknown eyewitness account of the extinct dodo bird.1 In April 1615, the Dutch ship Wapen van Amsterdam landed in Mauritius and "captured many turtles, dodos (dodeersen), and some geese and parrots," according to a ship's log that likely was authored by Isbrant Cornelisz van Petten.1
This discovery fills a significant gap in the historical record of the species, bridging documentation from 1611 to 1616.1 Additionally, researchers have identified a potential new lead connecting multiple dodo specimens in the court of Mughal Emperor Jahangir—a bird recorded by Portuguese Jesuit missionaries in Mauritius in 1616, which may in fact have been a dodo rather than an ostrich as previously catalogued.1 The most accurate surviving depiction of the dodo was created by Ustad Mansur, a court painter under Emperor Jahangir.1 The research team brings over a decade of specialized expertise to this work and plans to publish a comprehensive study on animal extinction in the early modern period.1
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