Biotech firm hatches 26 chicks in artificial eggs (opens in new tab)

Colossal Biosciences, a Texas biotechnology company pursuing de-extinction projects, said it hatched 26 chicks using a laboratory artificial egg system, calling the result groundwork for future work on extinct birds such as the moa and dodo. The company described the result not as a moa embryo, but as a chicken proof of concept for incubation outside a natural shell. The announcement focused on the giant moa of New Zealand, a flightless bird that stood more than 3 metres tall, weighed more th...