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The Moa and the Dodo: One Bird’s Comeback — and Another’s Warning

Dave Posted on July 18 2025

There’s something both inspiring and unsettling happening in the world of science right now.

A team of researchers and geneticists, backed by Peter Jackson (yeah, the guy behind Lord of the Rings), is working to bring back the giant moa — a massive, flightless bird that roamed New Zealand until humans wiped it out about 600 years ago. This thing stood over 12 feet tall and weighed nearly 500 pounds. Picture a walking dinosaur that ate ferns and towered over you like a basketball hoop on stilts.

It’s wild. And it's real. but should we?

The Kākāpō and the Dodo: A Tale of Quirks, Conservation, and Second Chances

Dave Posted on January 06 2025

The Kākāpō, New Zealand’s nocturnal, flightless parrot, is like the quirky cousin of the bird world—awkward, charming, and utterly unfit for houseguests. This green, chubby wonder is one of the rarest birds on Earth, with fewer than 250 individuals left as of 2023. Its plight echoes that of the dodo, the infamous flightless bird driven to extinction in the 1600s by habitat destruction, overhunting, and invasive species. The kākāpō teeters on the edge of a similar fate, highlighting the fragile balance between human activity and wildlife survival.

Can We Bring the Dodo Back?

Dave Posted on December 19 2024

De-extinction fascinates me. I (probably like you) love reading updates from organizations like Colossal- a key de-extinction organization, wondering when I will see a little dodo head pop into frame- a relic reimagined over 300 years after the last known bird graced windswept Mauritius. Re-inventing the Dodo Can you imagine...