A de-extinction company has hatched live chicks from an artificial eggshell (www.ap.org)

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[-] Miller@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I would suggest the preferable term re--extantion as extinction is a definitive event and any species de-extincted was strictly never extinct in hindsight and so yields runtime errors in the brain like Kirk overloading a supercomputer.

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