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BREAKTHROUGH: Colossal scientists hatched healthy chicks from artificial eggs. No shells. No hens. Just bioengineered eggs that breathe like the real thing. This could help bring back giant extinct birds like the South Island giant moa, whose eggs were ~80x a chicken’s. (1/10)

Nope. You can’t pet the dire wolves. Even if you’re cute. And little. Maybe especially if you’re cute and little. 😬

America Is Creating a DNA 'Noah's Ark' for More Than 2,300 Endangered Species gizmodo.com/america-is-cre…

“We want a digital twin of nature,” says Colossal co-founder and CEO Ben Lamm, “something like the old school library card catalog for life.” time.com/article/2026/0…

Conservation on ice 🧊 Excited to announce a collaboration led by the @USFWS in partnership the @Interior that will safeguard biodiversity long into the future. Our goal is to biobank every species on the endangered species list in the U.S., sequence their genetics, and make that data available for conservationists. Full story: time.com/article/2026/0…

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Big stretch for a big job. 💪 Prairie dogs are adorable, and they’re ecosystem engineers. Their grazing reshapes grasslands, and their burrows provide shelter for countless species, including the endangered black-footed ferret. (1/3)

@WIRED The ESA is an absolutely crucial piece of legislation and this partnership is a giant win for conservation.

The move comes as the Trump administration is trying to weaken the act that’s meant to protect endangered species from going extinct in the first place. wired.com/story/colossal…

A firm that is trying to bring back the mammoth and the dodo is now partnering with the US government to preserve samples of endangered plants and animals in case they too disappear bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@business HUGE step forward toward making extinction a thing of the past.

@kingaustyno @business that's the goal!

@business interesting approach, hoping they can make a real difference with this preservation effort

The chief animal officer for Colossal and the executive director of the company's foundation talks about animal conservation, biobanking, and the Foo Fighters. dmagazine.com/philanthropy-n…

@MattJamesCAO This account is impersonating Matt James and sharing fake updates. Follow @colossal for official de-extinction updates.

📺 Full video on YouTube ⬇️ youtube.com/watch?v=79vIn0…

🚫 🦤 The image of the dodo we all know came from a painting based on a very overstuffed specimen. In this new film, art historian Marine Saussier follows clues hidden in centuries of art to uncover what the dodo may have really looked like.

Most of the time when we think about “explorers” we imagine someone heading off into the jungle to search for a lost city or civilization… but there also exists explorers of a different kind: those who search for lost species. In today’s video, made in collaboration with @colossal we dive into the story of how the Giant Moa was found & how, with the help of New Zealand’s Māori people, it will one day return🧬

We can’t expect the same old donors to carry conservation. We’re in a full-on biodiversity crisis. We need new money and new kinds of backers. 🤘 De-extinction doesn’t just push science forward, it pulls attention. And attention brings in people, funding, and momentum.

@AndrewPaulWood The Ngāi Tahu Research Centre (NTRC) will help direct all aspects of this project, from laboratory research to conservation planning and implementation

The moa’s original ecosystem has been radically transformed by introduced mammals and plants with only a superficial resemblance to the original habitat, and as far as I'm aware there’s no credible official endorsement by Ngāi Tahu, so who are these "South Island Māori"?

@signalxsoul A few hundred years is the blink of an eye in evolutionary time. The moa’s natural habitat still exists in New Zealand, and we’re working closely with New Zealand’s South Island Māori to bring this species back.

@colossal What's the plan here for if you do manage to grow a giant bird? Where is it going to go? Will it know how to survive in the current environment? Will it be able to learn how to be a 500 lb chicken at all without other moas around?

🪺 Welcome to the wild world of egg. Some look like polished gems. Some are pointy. One held around 2 gallons inside. And one was so massive we literally had to engineer a brand-new artificial egg just to hatch something that size again. Egg is not boring. 🤷‍♂️ (1/10)