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The Texas startup that’s bringing back the Wooly Mammoth has a new project: growing chickens in artificial eggs

Fast Company Tech Adele Peters May 19, 2026
The Texas startup that’s bringing back the Wooly Mammoth has a new project: growing chickens in artificial eggs
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# Artificial Eggs Could Help Save Endangered Birds A Texas startup has successfully hatched chickens in lab-made eggs, creating a system that works like a real egg but gives scientists much more control. Unlike earlier attempts that required constant monitoring and could damage the birds, these new artificial eggs use a titanium frame and special membrane that let embryos develop naturally while staying simple enough to fit in a regular incubator. The company plans to use this technology to revive extinct species like the giant moa, but it could also help save endangered birds that are alive today.

A flock of chickens living in a coop near Dallas, Texas, are ordinary birds. But they hatched inside 3D-printed artificial eggs in a lab at Colossal Biosciences, the Dallas-based “de-extinction” company. Colossal designed a new system that functions essentially like a natural egg. One of the comp

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