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'Lord of the Rings' director backs long shot de-extinction plan, starring New Zealand's lost moa (lemmy.nz)
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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".

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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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?

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