Dodo breakthrough as scientists use pigeon DNA to bring extinct bird back from dead

Dodos could return within a decade according to Colossal Biosciences– which also wants to "de-extinct" the woolly mammoth and sabre toothed tiger Dodos have been extinct for nearly 300 years (Image: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Scientists have claimed they are one step closer to bringing the dodo back from extinction within a few years. ‌

Boffins in Texas have created gene-edited chickens that could one day lay eggs carrying the extinct bird using tweaked pigeon DNA. ‌

Colossal Biosciences have created the birds without their own primordial germ cells, which they can insert reconstructed dodo DNA into. ‌

Primordial germ cells become sperm or eggs, so once dodo DNA has replaced the chicken cells and been fertilised, they will lay “dodo” egg