🦖 Colossal is building artificial eggs to revive giant birds
The company trying to resurrect mammoths just unveiled an artificial egg incubator — and it already hatched multiple chicks.
The end goal? Bringing back the giant moa, a 3-meter-tall bird from New Zealand that went extinct centuries ago. Problem is: no living bird can realistically incubate an egg that size.
So Colossal built a silicone-based artificial egg with a membrane that mimics real shell oxygen exchange. Scientists can even watch embryos develop in real time while testing genetic edits.
For now it’s chickens. Next: emus and ostriches. Then maybe… moa.
We officially live in a timeline where extinct birds might come back through biotech. 😶