A biotech company that aims to resurrect lost creatures says it has hatched live chicks in an artificial environment

Colossal Biosciences, the company that produced a trio of modern-day dire wolves, now has its own answer to the question: What comes first, the chicken or the egg?

Today's announcement by Texas-based de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences about a successful hatching of chicks from an artificial egg would represent a major innovation, if the claims can be verified.

The only pair of breeding ospreys in southern England have hatched their first chick of 2026. Female CJ7 and male 022 laid four eggs at their nest site in a walled garden near Poole Harbour in Dorset for the third year in a row in April.

A U.S. company said more than two dozen healthy baby chickens have hatched from an artificial egg platform it has developed in what it calls a pivotal

Colossal Biosciences said over two dozen healthy baby chickens have hatched from an artificial egg platform it launched as a part of an effort to revive a large flightless bird that went extinct centuries ago.

Colossal Biosciences—the same company that claimed to “de-extinct” the dire wolf and touted a “woolly mouse” bearing mammoth genes—announced the development of an “artificial egg” that it says is a