Naturally, these have spawned some of the most famous cartoon characters in TV history. Think Sylvester, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Tweety from Looney Tunes, or Angelica Pickles and Susie ...

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After the birth of three pups has been called the "de-extinction" of a species not seen on Earth in more than 10,000 years, the company that made it possible has it sights set on resurrecting more ...

What about the dodo bird? Colossal Biosciences has an entire page devoted to its efforts to resurrect the woolly mammoth. "Colossal’s landmark de-extinction project will be the resurrection of ...

Everything about the puppy stage makes me swoon. It's all so new and adorable, you can't help but sigh when you watch them as little hearts and love bubbles pop around your eyes. One of the cutest ...

And this is the way that we're going to create mammoths for the future." Dodo birds are also on Colossal's de-extinction list as the firm revealed it would use preserved DNA from dodos in museums ...

Once only found on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, the dodo was, according to a webpage from the University of Oxford's Natural History Museum, "a large flightless bird" whose physical ...

Also on Colossal's de-extinction list are the dodo bird and the Tasmanian tiger. In the late 1500s, human settlers arrived on the East Africa island of Mauritius, the only place the dodo bird is ...

But Colossal is working on long-term projects to create genetically engineered versions of the woolly mammoth, dodo bird and Tasmanian tiger with the intention to help repopulate some of those spe ...

Also on Colossal's de-extinction list are the dodo bird and the Tasmanian tiger. In the late 1500s, human settlers arrived on the East Africa island of Mauritius, the only place the dodo bird is known ...

Alongside the dire wolves, the company has cloned litters of critically endangered red wolves and plans to revive species like the woolly mammoth and dodo bird.