A company called Clausal Bio sciences has raised $225 million to revive the extinct dodo bird through cloning. A genetics department has been created that will bring both to the species back to through cutting-edge technology.
The dodo birds were hunted and wiped out by humans after discovering the islands they lived in. The last dodo was killed by humans on the island of Mauritius in 1681. Dodo bones and stuffed dodo birds still exist in the world through which its complete genome has been read and researched for two decades. Although it is not possible to make a 100 percent copy of the bird, attempts will then be made to breed it in a nearby bird, including a ‘Nicobar Islands Pigeon’.
In the first phase, the genetic differences between the Nicobar pigeon and the dodo will be explored. This will reveal the genes that made the dodo the kind of bird it was. Then perhaps the pigeon gene would be modified to bring it closer to the cells of the dodo. This would probably involve making eggs from cells and growing them inside another bird.