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This Corporate Needs to Deliver the Dodo Again From Extinction | Good Information
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The dodo, now extinct, weighed about 50 kilos, had blue and gray feathers and could not fly.
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During the last 12 months and a part, a biotechnology corporation has made headlines with its formidable plans to genetically recreate individuals of 2 extinct species—the woolly mammoth and the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger. On Tuesday, the corporate, known as Colossal Biosciences, added a 3rd animal to its de-extinction bucket record: the dodo chook.
“I’ve all the time been thinking about the dodo,” Beth Shapiro, the lead