Dodo genome is sequenced for the first time - raising hopes it could be brought back from extinction - Daily Mail

Professor Beth Shapiro, of the University of California, Santa Cruz, said her team would soon publish the complete DNA of the dodo specimen in the Natural History Museum of Copenhagen.

Hopes have been raised that the dodo could be brought back from extinction after scientists sequenced the bird's entire genome for the first time. They spent years struggling to find well enough pre… [+9966 chars]

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