The company trying to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth also wants to revive the dodo bird—and it’s already raised more than $200 million

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It has been 361 years since anyone has seen a dodo, the odd-looking bird that has become a poster child for extinction. But Colossal Biosciences is hoping to bring them back.

, says it will pursue the de-extinction of the iconic bird, using funds from a Series B funding round that injected another $150 million into the company.“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,” says Beth Shapiro Ph.D., a board member on Colossal's Scientific Advisory Board and lead paleogeneticist on the project.

Dodos formerly lived on the island of Mauritius, near Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. They were a little over three feet tall and weighed up to 39 pounds. While there are plenty of drawings of the flightless birds, little is known about them.

 

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What if we discover dodo tastes amazing (why they went extinct) and we just add them to the menu at chik fila

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