{"id":241824,"date":"2025-09-20T16:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/241824\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T16:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:25:12","slug":"bringing-back-the-dodo-extinct-bird-may-see-new-life-thanks-to-texas-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/241824\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing back the Dodo? Extinct bird may see new life thanks to Texas company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS \u2014 A Texas-based company, Colossal Biosciences, announced Wednesday that it is making strides toward bringing the dodo bird back from extinction. <\/p>\n<p>The dodo has been extinct for approximately 400 years. The company is employing genetic engineering techniques to create a living version or &#8220;copy&#8221; of the bird. <\/p>\n<p>Colossal Biosciences stated it has developed the technology to successfully culture specialized cells from Nicobar pigeons, the dodo&#8217;s closest living relative.<\/p>\n<p>The company estimates that it will take at least five to seven years for the project to come to fruition. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to the dodo, Colossal is also working on reviving other extinct species, including woolly mammoths and Tasmanian tigers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS \u2014 A Texas-based company, Colossal Biosciences, announced Wednesday that it is making strides toward bringing the dodo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":241825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,17219,129097,23645,34128,129098,7202,7203,129100,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,129099],"class_list":{"0":"post-241824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-colossal-biosciences","10":"tag-dodo","11":"tag-extinct","12":"tag-genetic-engineering","13":"tag-nicobar-pigeons","14":"tag-san-antonio","15":"tag-sanantonio","16":"tag-tasmanian-tigers","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-woolly-mammoths"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115237560231473333","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}