Posted on 05/19/2026 8:11:19 AM PDT by DFG
Could this bring species back from egg-stinction?
Texas firm Colossal Biosciences, which has dedicated itself to resurrecting lost species, including the dire wolf and woolly mammoth, has hatched live chicks from an artificial egg for the first time — a crucial, “Jurassic Park”-esque step in its mission to bring back the moa and other giant, long-gone avians.
The first-of-its-kind artificial egg allows a bird embryo to develop completely outside of a biological shell while scientists oversee every aspect from early embryo to hatching.
The team hatched 26 “healthy” chickens, which “will live out their natural lives” at the company’s avian facility, CEO and co-founder Ben Lamm told The Post.
But the company says the implications go far beyond hatching domestic fowl.
Colossal believes that the tech could help save endangered birds with low hatch rates while also paving the way for resurrecting extinct avians such as the dodo and the moa — a large, flightless bird that was hunted to extinction in New Zealand by Māori settlers around 600 years ago
“We didn’t just copy nature,” Lamm declared to The Post. “We tried to re-engineer it.”
Unlike the company’s mammoth and dire wolf projects — which relied on mammal surrogates such as elephants and domestic dogs — giant avians pose a different challenge: There are no modern birds capable of incubating a moa egg.
Standing at up to 13 feet tall and weighing as much as 500 pounds, the avian’s egg was around eight times larger than that of an emu.
Colossal 3D printed a biologically accurate replica egg from titanium, a faux embryo comprised of a lattice shell lined with a bio-engineered silicone membrane that mimics how real eggs transfer oxygen. The porous liner, the company said, actually exceeds the oxygen transfer capacity of a normal chicken egg.
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What movie is that from?
Somehow, I don’t think that’s supposed to be her father or big brother. She’s all Dolled Up for a reason.
Theres not much left to learn. We are so SMRT.
Robot Chicken?
Blade Runner. “Pris” was a basic pleasure model. Replicant.
Because this is how you get Jurassic Park.
“A Pleasure Model”. That’s a useful term.
Excellent use of a Blade Runner scene. My favorite line is Pris saying “then we’re stupid, and we’ll die.”
Remember when the government gutted the timber industry to save the spotted owl? Time moved on. The forest grew so many more trees another species of owl moved in...and is wiping out the spotted owl.
About a hundred years ago a rich Australian wanted some rabbits to hunt. He imported a couple of rabbits and let them go. This has caused an ecological disaster and cost Australian farmers billions of dollars.
A woman who had been to Japan thought that water lilies were beautiful, so she brought a few to the states and let them go. I curse her every time I get on a Florida river. They have no natural enemies. Forget about ponds. Once the lilies take over you can forget about fishing.
The list of stupid disasters goes on and on. So, let’s introduce a nuclear level of stupidity. Oh, yeah! Megafauna. What could go wrong?
Good question.
Same here.
So I assume this means artificial dinosaur eggs can also be made?
This is why we cant have nice things
But are they tasty?
I’m sure this will end well.
Velociraptors would be fun.
Don’t most of these people believe in evolution and the survival of the fittest?
Porch Dino.
More effective than the standard hound
We don’t need electric sheep.
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