AI is helping rescue a nearly extinct bird species

The Colossal Foundation has developed an AI algorithm that can detect the critically endangered tooth-billed pigeon's calls, helping conservationists locate the lost species. Partnering with the Samoa Conservation Society (SCS), Colossal Biosciences' nonprofit arm hopes that this technology will lead to more sightings of this lost bird -- and eventually assist in saving other endangered species as well. The tooth-billed pigeon is a large bird native to Samoa's rainforests, and which has only been found within this one country. Also called the manumea or "little dodo," Samoa's national bird is one of the closest living relatives to the famously extinct dodo. Unfortunately, genetics isn't the only aspect in which the two species are similar.