THE DODO could be brought back to life hundreds of years after going extinct thanks to a DNA breakthrough.

There a similar hopes for the woolly mammoth, whose genome has also been fully sequenced thanks to well-preserved specimens found in permafrost in Siberia.

Entrepreneur Ben Lamm and Harvard geneticist George Church have created a new gene-editing company called Colossal that plans to bring the woolly mammoth back to life.

This would involve splicing woolly mammoth DNA with that of a modern Asian elephant and then creating an embryo which could be grown in an artificial womb or a surrogate elephant.

Dodo could be brought back to life after scientists scan extinct bird's DNA