The DODO is coming back!

[Mushroom]

No, not the Spyderco Dodo but the real life Dodo bird! This is actually the third animal next to the Wooly Mammoth and Tasmanian Tiger being planned for “de-extinction” by Colossal Biosciences.

“Founded in 2021 by tech entrepreneur Ben Lamm and Harvard University geneticist George Church, the company first said it would re-create the mammoth. And a year later it announced such an effort for the thylacine, aka the Tasmanian tiger. Now, with the launch of a new Avian Genomics Group and a reported $150 million of additional investment, the long-gone dodo joins the lineup.”

The full article can be found here - https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... -the-dodo/

And this is a short YouTube video from wildlife biologist Forrest Galante casually talking about the “de-extinction” plans.



I think it would be really cool for Spyderco to “de-extinct” their own Dodo specimen to coincide with the real bird.

[mikey177]

So the new idiom will be "de-extinct as a Dodo"?

[JoshLikesSekiCityKnives]

May very well be possible with modern and future technology. I will take a de extinct Saber tooth Tiger.

[JD Spydo]

The heck with the prehistoric bird I want to see at least 4 more renditions of the great Spyderco Dodo model.

I also would love to see a larger scale version of the Dodo. It's one older Spyder that would be great in a bigger size I"m sure.

Maybe Spyderco should do a Pterodactyl model. That's an ancient bird I always admired I can only imagine what a Spyderco Pterodactyl would look like.

[James Y]

I'd like to see a living, breathing T-Rex. But that won't be happening in my lifetime, if ever. But IF scientists ever did, I highly doubt they would look or behave like the dinosaurs in the Jurassic Park movies. I bet that in reality, T-Rexes were quicker and a lot stealthier than they're depicted in the movies.

Jim