Chicks hatched from artificial eggs in scientific first — it could a game-changer for bringing extinct animals back to life

Nypost · May 19, 2026 · 748 words · By Ben Cost

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9 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Texas firm Colossal Biosciences... has hatched live chicks from an artificial egg for the first time”

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Multiple independent sources, including National Geographic and CNN, confirm that Colossal Biosciences hatched live chicks from an artificial egg.

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web search NEUTRAL — Colossal Biosciences Inc. is an American biotechnology and genetic engineering company working to de-extinct several extinct animals, including the woolly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger, the northern wh…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Biosciences

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web search NEUTRAL — The company has not released the hatch rate to compare it to past efforts. The Colossal design includes a clear window at the top of its artificial egg, to allow scientists to directly observe the dev…
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/artificia…

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web search NEUTRAL — Live chicks have been hatched using a 3D-printed artificial eggshell that mimics some functions of a natural egg, including oxygen exchange and calcium supplementation.
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-de-extinction-company-hatched-…

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“The team hatched 26 “healthy” chickens”

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CNN explicitly reports that Colossal Biosciences hatched 26 chicks from artificial eggs.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Colossal Biosciences Inc. is an American biotechnology and genetic engineering company working to de-extinct several extinct animals, including the woolly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger, the dire wolf,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Biosciences

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — De-extinction (also known as resurrection biology, or species revivalism) is the process of human intervention to generate an organism that either resembles or is an extinct organism. There are severa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-extinction

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus ) is an extinct species of canine which was native to the Americas during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene epochs (125,000–10,000 years ago). The species was name…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dire_wolf

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“the moa — a large, flightless bird that was hunted to extinction in New Zealand by Māori settlers around 600 years ago”

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Wikipedia and Britannica confirm the moa was a large, flightless bird native to New Zealand that went extinct following human settlement (Māori).

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The demographics of New Zealand encompass the gender, ethnic, religious, geographic, and economic backgrounds of the 5.3 million people living in New Zealand. New Zealanders predominantly live in urba…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Māori culture (Māori: Māoritanga) is the customs, cultural practices, and beliefs of the Māori people of New Zealand. A part of Eastern Polynesian culture, Māori culture forms a distinctive part of Ne…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — New Zealand is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) and the South Island (Te Waipounamu)—and over 600 smaller island…
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“Standing at up to 13 feet tall and weighing as much as 500 pounds, the avian’s egg was around eight times larger than that of an emu.”

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Sources vary on the height (10ft, 12ft, 13ft). While some sources mention weights up to 500 lbs, the claim that eggs were 'eight times larger than that of an emu' is not explicitly confirmed in the provided evidence, though they are described as 'enormous'.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The S&P 500 is a stock market index maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices. It comprises 503 common stocks which are issued by 500 large-cap companies traded on American stock exchanges (including the 30…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — S&P 500 (Standard and Poor's 500) is a stock market index tracking the stock performance of 500 leading companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States. It is one of the most commonly followe…
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“Colossal 3D printed a biologically accurate replica egg from titanium, a faux embryo comprised of a lattice shell lined with a bio-engineered silicone membrane”

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While the general concept of a 3D-printed lattice and silicone membrane is mentioned in National Geographic and other reports, the specific detail about 'titanium' is not corroborated across the provided evidence snippets.

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web search NEUTRAL — Colossal is a 2016 science fiction black comedy film directed and written by Nacho Vigalondo. The film stars Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Dan Stevens, Austin Stowell, and Tim Blake Nelson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_(film)

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web search NEUTRAL — 4 days ago · Colossal is an independent online art magazine celebrating visual culture since 2010. Based in Chicago.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/

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web search NEUTRAL — 5 days ago · The meaning of COLOSSAL is of, relating to, or resembling a colossus. How to use colossal in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Colossal.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/colossal

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“The porous liner, the company said, actually exceeds the oxygen transfer capacity of a normal chicken egg.”

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One source states the membrane 'matches' the oxygen transfer capacity of a natural eggshell, while the claim asserts it 'exceeds' it. This is a contradiction in the degree of performance.

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web search NEUTRAL — Pic: Colossal Biosciences. Image: One of the first chicks hatched from an artificial egg.Colossal's invention is made from a lattice shell structure and a silicone-based membrane that "matches the oxy…
https://news.sky.com/story/de-extinction-firm-colossal-biosc…

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web search NEUTRAL — Colossal's artificial egg — a delicate 3D-printed lattice wrapped in a custom silicone membrane that breathes just like a real shell — gives those efforts a fighting chance. Earlier shell-less experim…
https://www.distractify.com/p/meet-the-colossal-innovation-t…

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“the moa revival is being developed in collaboration between Māori’s cultural and intellectual institution Ngāi Tahu Research Centre and “Lord of the Rings” visionary Peter Jackson”

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The provided evidence confirms Colossal is working on the moa, but none of the provided search results mention a collaboration with the Ngāi Tahu Research Centre or Peter Jackson.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The South Island giant moa (Dinornis robustus) is an extinct species of moa in the genus Dinornis, known in Māori by the name moa nunui. It was one of the tallest-known bird species to walk the Earth,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Island_giant_moa

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“In 2025, Colossal announced that it’d successfully grown pigeon primordial germ cells”

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Multiple sources confirm Colossal Biosciences successfully cultured pigeon primordial germ cells (PGCs) as a step toward dodo de-extinction.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Colossal Biosciences dire wolf project is a project by Colossal Biosciences with the goal of replicating the phenotype of the extinct dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus) by genetic engineering. As of 2025,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Biosciences_dire_wolf…

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“the flightless Mauritian dodo, which went extinct 300 years ago.”

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