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Giant, flightless bird is next target for de-extinction company

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/science/giant-moa-colossal-biosciences
1•Qem•4h ago

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Qem•4h ago
After the fake dire wolf de-extinction I wonder if they will show up with an chicken possessing slightly different plumage patterns and claim it is a moa.
Webstir•3h ago
Great. We can't manage to hang on to the species we have, but sure, let's dredge up species from the past that went extinct naturally for the lulz.
Qem•2h ago
I wouldn't count moa extinction as a natural one. It lived up to historic times, a few hundred years ago, and is well established humans had a big role in their demise. The jury is still open on other megafauna that went extinct thousands of years ago.

I'm write an entusiast for efforts to use modern technology to reverse some of the damage we've done to Earth biosphere, even recovering lost species. But the dire wolf shenanigans made me skeptical of Colossal. At this point it appears more an elaborate publicity stunt than legitimate de-extinction effort.

How Living in San Francisco Made Me More Present

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1•agcat•4m ago•0 comments

Ultrastable optical frequency transfer and attosecond timing in multicore fiber

https://opg.optica.org/optica/fulltext.cfm?uri=optica-12-6-894&id=573120
1•PaulHoule•7m ago•0 comments

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1•rntn•7m ago•0 comments

Mark Zuckerberg on rebranding Facebook (2018)

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1944105758297403604
1•mfiguiere•7m ago•0 comments

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1•Anon84•7m ago•0 comments

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1•gnabgib•17m ago•0 comments

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Claude Opus Analysis of Twitter's 2023 ML Algorithm

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1•Olshansky•22m ago•0 comments

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1•johncole•32m ago•1 comments

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1•lentoutcry•33m ago•0 comments

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1•Brajeshwar•35m ago•0 comments

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6•type0•47m ago•0 comments

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