‘Unsettling’ bid to bring dodo back to life

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Dodo bird

Scientists are trying to bring the dodo back to life after it went extinct 361 years ago. Researchers at Colossal Biosciences, a US gene-editing firm, said they will “de-extinct” the flightless bird in a new $150m project. The project, described as “unsettling” by the Financial Times, will see scientists mine the dodo genome for key traits that they believe they can effectively reassemble within the body of a living relative. The company, Colossal Biosciences, has already embarked on projects to revive the woolly mammoth and the thylacine.

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