{"id":1651,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/30\/scientists-are-attempting-to-bring-the-dodo-back-to-life\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:11","slug":"scientists-are-attempting-to-bring-the-dodo-back-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/scientists-are-attempting-to-bring-the-dodo-back-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists are attempting to bring the dodo back to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-09-30 15:02:14<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Scientists are working on a &#8220;de-extinction&#8221; plan to bring the dodo back to life.<BR><br \/>\nThe flightless birds died out over 350 years ago but Beth Shapiro, the chief scientific officer at the US company Colossal Biosciences, has been able to sample a complete dodo genome through an exhibit from the Museum of Copenhagen.<BR><br \/>\nShapiro has established that the dodo&#8217;s closest living relative was the brightly coloured Nicobar pigeon and now plans to edit its genome to introduce the traits of the extinct birds.<BR><br \/>\nThe scientist and her team are hoping that a chicken surrogate will lay eggs containing the new dodolike bird, although it will not be identical to the creatures that existed centuries ago.<BR><br \/>\nShapiro told The Sunday Times newspaper: &#8220;One of the biggest misconceptions that we get when we talk about de-extinction is this idea we are able to bring back something that is an identical replica in every way.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-09-30 15:02:14 Scientists are working on a &#8220;de-extinction&#8221; plan to bring the dodo back to life. The flightless birds died out over 350 years ago but Beth Shapiro, the chief&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1653,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions\/1653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}