dodo

Colossal Biosciences has been on a quest to bring back extinct animals, including the woolly mammoth and dodo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Popular culture has often depicted the dodo as clumsy and unintelligent, sometimes suggesting that its extinction was almost unavoidable.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

Colossal’s latest announcement was that it has hatched 26 chickens in an “artificial egg” — a “foundational step,” it said, “toward resurrecting extinct bird species” such as the New Zealand giant moa and the dodo.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

Now if the last remaining hereditary peers play their cards right, they could endure another Labour prime minister and delay their destiny to go the way of the dodo.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026

I put on my dumb dodo face to fake not knowing what she meant.

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia

Yet not much is known about how dodoes functioned in their ecosystem.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 31, 2023

Another challenge for de-extinction is ensuring the well-being of the genetically engineered dodoes.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 31, 2023

The dodoes, which reproduced by laying a single egg on the ground, were also predated by other species, such as monkeys and rats, which humans brought with them.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 31, 2023

Banked with mock turtles, dodoes, lories, red and white queens, mad hatters, March hares and hookah-smoking caterpillars, she manages to make them as real as she is by making herself as unreal as they are.

From Time Magazine Archive

So with Quilp, Toots, Squeers, Pumblechook; so with giraffes, baboons, dodoes, dromedaries,—all are freaks from the æsthetic viewpoint, but think of the overflowing energy implied in creating them!

From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William Joseph Long

But is lab-grown meat really likely to put mammoths, dodos and other exotica on the menu?

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2023

“They are just birds with dodo DNA. They don’t know how to be dodos because there are no dodos here to teach them.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2023

The concept is still in an early theoretical stage for dodos.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2023

I found that the island has a small airport, run by dodos: I am saved!

From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2020

All were amazed at this demonstration, and at the sight of the baby dodos, too, for everyone knew that dodos were long extinct.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood