'De-extinction' company to bring back extinct dodo bird to life

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Colossal Bioscience has already embarked on projects that could resurrect the woolly mammoth and the Tasmanian tiger.

"The Dodo is a prime example of a species that became extinct because we – people – made it impossible for them to survive in their native habitat," Beth Shapiro, Ph.D.

The Europeans were said to encounter the bird in 1507. And when they arrived on the island of Mauritius, they introduced species such as rats, goats, pigs, deer, and macaque — that took a liking for dodo bird eggs. The dodo bird's final date of extinction is recorded to be sometime around 1690, according to Colossal Bioscience.

The Dodo was a stout bird with muted gray features and a stark white tail plume. It weighed as much as 50 pounds and had a distinctive curved beak. While doves, vultures, and pigeons are considered to be relatives of the dodo bird, the colorful Nicobar pigeon shares the most ties with the Dodo."It has a very undeserved reputation of this clumsy, kind of lumbering, inadequate bird, almost like a soccer ball with some legs under it.

 

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I'm all for resurrecting species that 'we' wiped out, but I have doubts the point in bringing back the woolly mammoth. Why the mammoth?

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