Billion-dollar startup Colossal Biosciences claims it has come a step closer to reviving the dodo, a flightless bird tha…

Billion-dollar startup Colossal Biosciences claims it has come a step closer to reviving the dodo, a flightless bird that has been extinct since the 17th century.

The futuristic plan is only possible now that the Dallas-based company has decrypted the dodo's entire genome, according to a press release.

The bird is the latest in the collection of long-gone animals that scientists want to bring back to life. The startup has previously said it plans to recreate the Tasmanian wolf and the woolly mammoth.

There's still a lot to be done before these birds can be brought back. Scientists can't recreate life from scratch, so they will have to figure out a way to put the dodo-specific genes into the embryo of a living animal.