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sunexpress.com and secure your seats today it's wednesday february first 2023. I'm Jackson Bird. Today, the dodo bird is back, baby. Or at least, lots of investors are betting on its return. But why is de-extincting animals the hot new thing? And what does it mean for the future of conservation?

Plus, Abraham Lincoln, bartender, another look at his motley early career and earliest speeches

that still resonate today. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

Colossal Biosciences is back in the headlines this week with a reaffirmed promise to bring

the dodo bird back from extinction.

This is the biotech company I've mentioned a number of times who plans to ultimately

de-extinct the woolly mammoth, but who is starting

relatively smaller with the thylacine, aka the Tasmanian tiger. And they have previously mentioned

that the dodo bird would be included in their plans, but on Tuesday they announced that

they had received $150 million in a Series B funding round,

and that the Dodo Bird is officially go for hatch.

The Dodo was a three-foot-tall, flightless bird with a huge beak that went extinct in 1662.

About a century and a half after European colonists first arrived in the

Dodo's native home of Mauritius and brought all of their other species, cats, dogs, rats,

with them, driving the very hungry Dodo into extinction.

Colossal Biosciences already has the genome of the dodo thanks to Beth Shapiro,

a specialist in ancient DNA at the University of California Santa Cruz, and now lead paleogeneticist

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