A Texas-based biosciences startup’s plan to bring back a wolf-like animal that’s thought to have gone extinct in 1936 seems quaint when stacked against its latest plan: to de-extinct a bird that last walked the earth in the late 1600s. Colossal Biosciences on Tuesday said it will endeavor to bring back the dodo bird, a desired feat the company indicates is more doable thanks to $150 million in new funding it has secured, reports Gizmodo. That means Colossal Biosciences has its sights set on resurrecting three creatures: the dodo, the aforementioned thylacine, and the woolly mammoth. The most interesting bits about the science around this quest:
- Initial steps: The bird’s genome has been sequenced using centuries-old remains and the DNA was next compared to the bird’s closest known relatives, the Nicobar pigeon and the Rodrigues solitaire. The latter, like the dodo, is an extinct flightless bird that lived near the dodo’s home island of Mauritius. The goal: zero in on which mutations in the genome “make a dodo a dodo,” lead paleogeneticist Beth Shapiro tells CNN.
Perhaps the Biden genome can assist?
D’oh!
didn’t we see this in that ’90’s movie by Speilberg? … didn’t go too well, as I recall
about as smart as altering gene sequences to make a ‘vaccine’
I would actually pay money to see a live mammoth.
Bringing the Dodo back just in time for man-made climate change to wipe them out again…
SMDH!
Oh snap. I thought they were talking about giving Shitpants a second chance. Phew!
Umm -can’t they just pick a couple of CONgress critters at random and get the same results?
Well with the killing off of chickens maybe the Dodo can take their place. I’ve read that they were quite tasty.
IRS ordered 87,000.
Tony R: Wanna see my Wooly Mammoth?
If it were up to me, I’d just shove a a couple feather dusters up Brandon and the dimwit Dr’s ass and stretch a rubber glove over their head before putting them on display at the Smithsonian and call it good. Nobody would notice the difference.
This is to close to screwing with Gods stuff for me. Just like they did with the JAB. At the same time they’re also trying to kill us with AI. WTF is wrong with these morons.
This company just may have the technology to bring back conservative congress critters with backbone.
This will not end well, everything the government touches ends up as shit!
“… a wolf-like animal …” and the Dodo – so the wolf-like animal will have something to eat?
Resurrect something we could use: like a politician with integrity, or an honest “judge,” or a non-criminal FBI agent, or maybe a news outlet that actually reported news instead of Nihilistic Totalitarian propaganda?
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Are they using any DNA from Joe Biden? They’re called Dodos for a reason, you know, just like Joe.
Will the new dodo still live in Wackyland in a Salvador Daliesque landscape with Porky Pig trying to capture the last dodo. Doh, doh, doh, dohdie, oh, doh! The rubber band still cracks me up.
Scientists Aim to Give the Dodo a 2nd Chance
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Put Fauci and the Chinese on this, they’ll have a Dodo produced lickty-split. “Wolf like?” Hope it turns on them and eliminates the monsters that they are.
This is so wrong on so many levels. I hope it fails
Dodos were docile and delicious. Which begs the question, Why weren’t they domesticated? They were so delicious that none ever reached civilization.
Bringing them back could start a whole new poultry industry.
Help me out here: Just EXACTLY what interest does the average American have in funding this shit?
Sorry but Joe Biden hasn’t earned a second chance.
“Dodo related deaths climbed again this week…”
Hope they don’t try to bring back Biden
We know how this movie ends we’ve seen it and all the sequels