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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Just add some feathers to BipolarBob’s velociraptor and it’s done.
A little gene splicing will do the trick.
Newman!!
Imported Heavenly Bamboo gets planted in every strip mall parking lot ever
Lovely ornamental shrub, glorious fall colors.
And every part of it absolutely loaded with lethal amounts of cyanide.
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How charming.
DO NOT bring back Helen Thomas!
Androids do.
Chickens produced on the Moon and on Mars from artificial eggs?
(praphrased)
“First come the Ooohs and Aaahs, then the RUNNING and SCREAMING...
Heavenly Bamboo is not really a problem, unlike MURDER HORNETS.
All parts of the bamboo plant are poisonous. The plant contains cyanogenic glycosides that produce cyanide when they are broken down in the digestive tract.
The leaves and green fruits are strongly cyanogenic, while the ripe fruits are less so.
Interestingly, human poisonings have not been reported, possibly due to the small glycoside content in ripe berries, small amounts ingested, or the cultivated varieties of this plant.
Only in their dreams…
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That s about my favorite scene
Why don’t they instead use their new tools to create giant chickens? They could solve world hunger!................
It’s from Blade Runner.
They are two bioengineered humanoids known as replicants who have escaped from their slavery work planets...........
I went through 30 minutes of absolute terror because my idiot Doberman decided to chomp a hearty mouthful of leaves outside ofca Hobby Lobby one night.
Now I carry hydrogen peroxide and a livestock syringe in the car WITH me
Activated charcoal too
Then a mystery tree popped up in my yard that was also an imported invasive that’s dog-dangerous.
Amur Honeysuckle.
No idea where it came from.
Had to stand out there for hours with a battery powered Sawzall to get rid of it.
It’s a never ending battle when you have goofy dogs who randomly snack on any plant they can get close to.
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Giant chickens would be more difficult and expensive to care for. Chickens are just about the right size already.
I can imagine one use for re-creating a critter and developing the technology to do so: if major pollinator populations were devastated, we could replace them.
But most solutions like that will probably come with all sorts of miserable unintended consequences; and some kind of mechanical solution would always be safer.
“Oh, yeah! Megafauna. What could go wrong?”
Well, it would ‘solve the homeless problem’ ...at first.
It’s already been done. The film adaptation allowed us fellas to get an eyeful of Laura Dern,a true Babeasaurus.
I'd turn mine out in Congress to free-range. Makes the eggs taste better.
New!
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