Need to know as 26 chicks hatched from 3D printed eggs to convey again extinct 12ft ‘dino-bird’

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Colossal Biosciences claims to have made a huge stride in their de-extinction mission to bring back the extinct giant moa bird by hatching 26 live chicks from a 3D printed egg structure

• Bonkers biotech boffins claim they’ve made a breakthrough in bringing back a terrifying 12ft extinct bird by hatching live chicks from 3D printed eggs.
• Colossal Biosciences, the mad scientists behind growing mammoth hair on lab mice, have successfully birthed 26 chickens using artificial lattice structures instead of real eggshells. The company reckons they can scale up the tech to resurrect the giant moa – a massive wingless bird that went extinct 600 years ago in New Zealand.
• CEO Ben Lamm boasted the method was “scalable” and could make nature “better and more efficient.” The process involves pouring fertilised eggs into 3D printed systems with added calcium before incubating.
• But sceptical scientists are pouring cold water on the claims, especially as they haven’t been peer-reviewed yet. Dr Louise Johnson from Reading University said commenting on the research was like “giving expert commentary on a YouTube ad.”
• Evolutionary biologist Vincent Lynch slammed: “They might be able to use this technology to help them make a genetically modified bird, but that’s just a genetically modified bird. It’s not a moa.”
• The Daily Star has approached Colossal Biosciences for comment.
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