Pigs and other animals brought to the island also ate dodo eggs, leading to extinction. According to Britannica, the birds were killed for food. Portuguese sailors discovered the dodo on the island of Mauritius off the east coast of Africa more than 500 years ago. Today, Colossal is committed to bringing it back.” “In the late 17th century, man brought an abrupt end to the dodo species.
“A mysterious bird of increasingly mysterious origins, the dodo bird ruled the roost on its native island of Mauritius – and nowhere else – until meeting an untimely demise,” Colossal writes on its website. Colossal cites “the dodo bird’s final date of extinction sometime around 1690,” with stating “the last dodo was killed in 1681.” The dodo bird species famously went extinct hundreds of years ago.
The mission is a part of the company’s “new Avian Genomics Group,” according to a tweet from the company. Genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences announced its scientists are planning to bring back the dodo bird.
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