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Breakthrough in dodo de-extinction. Bringing back the dodo is like rebuilding a lost hit from a few scratchy records. The tricky part? The arrangement, aka regulatory DNA. GenoMorph studies living birds to learn how it works. Swipe to learn more.
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Meet GenoMorph, our new AI-powered tool linking DNA to physical traits. We’re putting it to work on the dodo, flagging thousands of candidate DNA switches linked to beak size and shape. Next: testing which ones help shape that unmistakable face.
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This is beak performance.
GenoMorph uses living bird data to identify candidate DNA switches linked to skull and beak shape, helping guide our dodo de-extinction work.
It’s complicated science, but that’s half the fun. The other half is making skulls dance.
This blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) has a strut like Gu Jun Pyo.
Unlike the bluebuck, which was native to southern Africa, this graceful antelope lives in India and Nepal.
An extinct bird’s egg. A Colorado auction. A very overdue trip home. 🥚🇳🇿
After roughly 60 years in a private American collection, this rare moa egg is returning to Aotearoa New Zealand. We bought it to bring it home, under Ngāi Tahu’s guidance.
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Getting genetic tools into a bird embryo that’s still developing in the egg is tough. In a new preprint, the Colossal avian team shows lipid nanoparticles can reliably deliver them with high viability.
📄 Preprint is out now on bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
