Colossal says it built an artificial egg for full bird development

External bird development could change avian conservation and de-extinction work by removing dependence on natural shells and surrogate birds

We just built an artificial egg. It supports full bird development outside a natural shell, and could help hatch massive extinct birds like the South Island giant moa, whose eggs were too big for a living bird to hatch. We rebuilt the egg
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