The company plans to extract DNA from moa bones and use gene editing to modify “living birds to resemble the extinct South Island giant moa”.

  • Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz
    5·
    1 个月前

    This is a bit of a ship of theseus discussion, I think. Will these be moa, or something like an Emu or Ostrich that has been genetically edited to resemble a Moa?

    What is the cutoff point where you can consider something to be one species or another?

  • neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    3·
    1 个月前

    Hey uhh… I don’t know if these guys have ever seen jurrasic park, but maybe we should start a go fund me to get them movie tickets before we have the moa-b roaming the streets.