Live chicks hatched from artificial eggshell, biotech company says

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Colossal Biosciences says it hatched live chicks from artificial eggs for the first time, a step toward potentially reviving extinct birds like the dodo.

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Science breakthrough in battle to bring back extinct 12ft-tall giant bird as first chick hatches from artificial egg.

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Researchers looking to bring back a long extinct 12ft-tall bird have successfully hatched the first chick from an artificial egg.Colossal Biosciences revealed that the baby chickens emerged from a 3D-printed lattice structure engineered to replicate the function of a natural eggshell of a Giant Moa bird.

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The Texas-based company, founded by billionaire entrepreneur Ben Lamm, has previously made headlines with claims of genetically engineering mice with woolly mammoth characteristics and wolf pups resembling dire wolves."It's a major milestone for Colossal and a foundational technology for our de-extinction toolkit," said Mr Lamm.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say The South Island giant moa, which weighed around 230kg, became extinct between 1380 and 1445 following Polynesian settlement.The moa's eggs posed a unique challenge for any resurrection attempt, being roughly 80 times larger than a chicken's and approximately eight times the volume of an emu egg, far too large for any living...

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Live chicks hatched from artificial eggshell, biotech company says.

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