They have one. They made one

@@chrisanderson1-66 Pleistocene Park?

Ah the dodos, simply adorable birds.

I want to visit the dodo de extinction center, and make sure to snuggle with this cute lil birb

@@EclipsingTNT no, no I’m pretty sure it was the Cretaceous Camp???

It might be easier to work out how to replicate what the Moa gut did that was so crucial.

Ask and you shall receive! Watch our latest video outlining the de-extinction process for the Dodo bird: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fLCcqdVqtNfPaJs.html

@@itiscolossal if you ever wanted to get into a plush market, might I suggest extinct animal plushies wearing a colossal biosciences themed lab coat?

@@iamarizonaball2642 I. Love. That. Idea.

​@@itiscolossal CIA is going to bring extinct animals to life.

Invasive species such as pigs and monkeys also wiped out the dodos by eating their eggs.

@@EclipsingTNT That is because it grew up on an island where it was used to not encountering predators, and then it was ill prepared for those predators

@@jamessparkman6604 I know that already.

They literally forgot how being scared works Not their fault though, they didn’t need it for millenias

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Bro, your head's in the right place. They aren't de-extincting these animals, they're making chimeras. They are editing the fuck out of the extant species' genomes and plugging in a few genes from the target in hopes of expressing traits that might trick the public into thinking it's some sort of hybrid at the very least. The reality is that the genes they will be introducing are guestimations from their comparative analyses between the extant species and the target species - in any case, they will be re-constructing the genes completely artificially using the nucleotide sequences derived from what recovered DNA they have available. Even then, they'll have to force an expression of specific genes to achieve the desired outcomes. The complexity of this task, without living tissues, will most likely lead to some disturbing initial results. This company will attract initial investment from this folly, but they're just going to use this de-extinction endeavor as a proving ground for public support. Their next 'evolutionary' step will be to pivot from these experiments to full-blown human genome editing. The entire plan is laid out in their latest video.

Yeah!!!

nahh let all the dogs become extinct

@@MisterBigSniff 😂😂😂

@@MisterBigSniff And replace them all with Sony aibos and Xiaomi CyberDogs, right?

I know the Dodo is iconic, but I'd prefer the pigeon and especially the parakeet as well.

The passenger pigeon is currently under the de-extinction process by a company called Revive and Restore. There is currently no de-extinction project for the Carolina parakeet. I wish they would also add the Carolina parakeet into their de-extinction projects along with the turnspit dog and the Labrador duck

Me too :)

@@PaolaLeon-bo9ex I called dips 😼

We're working to get something on KZfaq, but here is a video outlining our Thylacine de-extinction process on Instagram: instagram.com/p/CiW4KEXN0A3/

You would be amazed how many tigers are in the United States and Russia behind closed doors

@@urbanwarchief I know, they are very beautiful, but in the old comment I was talking about the Tasmanian tigers that went extinct in 1936. I am Italian and I am learning English (I am still a teenager) so I might have made some mistakes in the sentence.

@@christianerba makes sense. My mistake.

Don't be fooled - they aren't de-extincting these animals, they're making a chimera. They are editing the fuck out of the extant species' genomes and plugging in a few genes from the target in hopes of expressing traits that might trick the public into thinking it's some sort of hybrid at the very least. The reality is that the genes they will be introducing are guestimations from their comparative analyses between the extant species and the target species - in any case, they will be re-constructing the genes completely artificially using the nucleotide sequences derived from what recovered DNA they have available. Even then, they'll have to force an expression of specific genes to achieve the desired outcomes. The complexity of this task, without living tissues, will most likely lead to some disturbing initial results. This company will attract initial investment from this folly, but they're just going to use this de-extinction endeavor as a proving ground for public support. Their next 'evolutionary' step will be to pivot from these experiments to full-blown human genome editing. The entire plan is laid out in their latest video.

We're hiring! We encourage you to take a look at our current openings at colossal.com/careers/

@@itiscolossal if you ever wanted to get into a plush market, might I suggest extinct animal plushies wearing a colossal biosciences themed lab coat?

If you check out their website about the Dodo, this a the long shot out of all 3 projects they've going right now.

In an enclosure.

There's a dodo head specimen or two.

Hello! Thanks for your interest and questions. Regarding the dodo DNA, the only viable soft tissue that remains today is a dried head. A large amount of subfossil material has been collected on Mauritius, mostly from the Mare aux Songes swamp. Thanks to our Lead Paleogeneticist, Beth Shapiro, Ph.D., we have secured the full dodo genome from a specimen housed in Copenhagen’s Natural History Museum. Regarding its diet, the dodo is thought to have eaten primarily fruit and used gizzard stones to help digest its food. Inhabiting the woods in drier coastal areas, and having an abundance of food and a lack of predators, it is believed that the dodo lost the need for flight and became well adapted as a flightless, ground-dwelling bird. We encourage you to visit colossal.com/dodo/ for more info about our plans!

We are working hard to make this happen, but we don't have an official date yet. Stay tuned on our socials or newsletter for future updates: colossal.com/newsletter

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😂 this will definitely still take a few Years and there would probably be a really big Announcement when it finally happens (really hoping for Live Streams or at least normal Videos in which we can see the Animals once the Time finally comes). If nothing changed regarding the Plans though, we might get the first Mammoth in 2028 though if I remember correctly, so they'll probably try to start the Pregnancy in 2026 and then it'll take approximately 2 Years until it is born. Didn't hear anything yet about a approximate Time for the other Species

And yes, it would definitely be a Sight to behold. I hope we will be able to see a successfully cloned extinct Animal in a few Years 😃

Ground sloths -megalania- American lion Moa Saber tooth cat American tiger Mudhorn/siberian rihno unicorn Wolly rhino

​@@melonking281 CIA will bring extinct animals to life.

Great question - Colossal focuses on reviving species that humans directly made extinct. Within the last 50 years, it is estimated the world's bird population has declined by nearly 3 billion. This work will not only help us restore an iconic animal that we hunted into extinction, but also lay the foundation for unlocking other bird species that would positively impact our threatened environments.

First they need a usable Genome and this definitely takes some Time, so they can't start early enough. I think their biggest Priority at the Moment is the Woolly Mammoth anyways and the Tasmanian Tiger is probably second. It's definitely better to be prepared when a big scientific Breakthrough comes than not even having done a Quarter of the Work

So we can kill them again. Yes! It will be

Looks like you'll be visiting the beautiful country of Mauritius🏝as our intention is to partner with their government to establish a foundation for the de-extinction and eventual rewilding of the beloved bird we all miss. We will need to recreate a sustainable habitat where it is protected from the non-native species that once led to its demise. 🇲🇺🦤

That's one of the Reasons why I hope that they will also be kept in some Zoos. Cloning them is one Thing, but we also need to protect them.

Bringing these animals back is nothing like Jurassic Park. If we could miraculously clone Non-Avian Dinosaurs, that would cause the same amount of problems as Rabbits and Cane Toads did when they were brought into Australia. Non-Avian Dinosaurs evolved in ecosystems that are non-existent today, new environments that aren’t prepared for these animals. If they were brought back and released into the wild, they would well and truly cause detrimental environmental impacts as any other invasive species has done in the past. But bringing back animals that became extinct recently like Mammoths or Dodo’s is different, because they became extinct recently enough that the ecosystem they existed in still exist. So bringing them back into their natural habitat, would be the same as reintroducing a species into new regions where they were wiped previously wiped out, as we’ve already done reintroducing Wolves in Yellowstone National Park, or Giant Tortoises in Mauritius to replace the ones wiped out alongside the Dodo. So when there brought back, they’d just go back into the empty niche they previously filled like nothing happened, and continue interacting with the same animals they shared their habitat with when the became extinct (newly introduced Dodo’s and Tassie Devils might still have trouble with invasive species still present in their native habitats, so that’s gonna have to be an issue they’ll have to sort out later, but it still proves my point that there not gonna cause any humanity ending catastrophes) In summary, brining back Dinosaurs would the same as bringing in an invasive species, but bring back recently extinct species like Mammoths, Dodo’s, or Tasmanian Tigers, is basically reintroducing them to their original habitats.

You’ve read far too many fiction novels.

The least it could do if it escaped was bite some human’s knees. It wouldn’t be able to kill.

Exactly!

Probably just feels that way because its probably just a social media manager running these videos alone and the company didn’t really put much thought into it. You’d probably find more information reading articles about this company

I hope he doesn't get involved. That A-Hole doesn't need to ruin everything

But if this technology is perfected, we can use it to save every other endangered species on the planet, and bring them back if they were to ever become extinct

Then in protest you should go into the woods, not use any technology at all. Live from nature. Live and lead by your example. If you don’t want to the shut your mouth

Their Work also helps with that. Their Work on the Mammoths seems to already have helped to improve the Conservation of other Elephant Species. Also definitely hope that they won't be just Hybrids. I really hope that we'll get Animals that are as genetically pure as possible someday. A Hybrid would be a good Start though because you could use those as Surrogate Mothers because they would be even genetically closer to the real Animal, which would hopefully mean way less Complications. Just hope no Hybrids will be released to the Wild, because if there are someday purer Animals, those Hybrids would've already taken over the ecological Niche and would interbreed with the (relatively) pure Specimens)