IT’S been extinct since the 1660s but now scientists are hoping to bring the dodo bird back to life.
A company called Colossal Biosciences has just announced plans to resurrect the bird and release it in its natural habitat.
APIt’s largely agreed that the last sighting of a dodo in the wild happened in 1662[/caption]
You may know the flightless bird from the well-used phrase “dead as a dodo” but evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro wants that phrase to go extinct.
According to Vice, he explained: “I’ve always been fascinated with the dodo.
“It’s the poster child, in a sad way, for how human habitat alteration can drive species to extinction.”
Ben Lamm, who co-founded Colossal Biosciences told the news outlet: “I think this is an opportunity where, given the man-made nature of the extinction of the dodo, man could not only bring the dodo back, but also fix what was done to parts of the ecosystem to reintroduce them.
“There’s a lot of benefits from a conservation perspective, in terms of what we can learn from rewilding.”