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What it would take to bring back the dodo

An audacious plan to ‘de-extinct’ dodos depends on huge leaps in biotechnology and resurrecting a lost habitat.
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  1. Ewen Callaway

A biotech company announced a bold effort to ‘de-extinct’ the dodo last week. The flightless birds vanished from the island of Mauritius — in the Indian Ocean — in the late seventeenth century, and became emblematic of humanity’s negative impacts on the natural world. Could the plan actually work?

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Nature 614, 402 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00379-5

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