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A researcher reports using the Claude Opus 5.5 AI model to help surface a previously unknown eyewitness record of the dodo, the extinct flightless bird of Mauritius. The finding is drawing attention among historians and technologists as an example of AI assisting archival discovery, with readers debating how much credit the model deserves versus traditional scholarship.

Veterinarians in Ukraine stopped to help an animal lying motionless in an active war zone, believing it was dead — until it suddenly moved. The rescue, documented by animal welfare outlet The Dodo, shows the vets giving the animal emergency care. Viewers are moved by the team risking danger to save an animal amid the ongoing war.

Wahyu Setia Widodo delivered a flash talk at the 6th Virtual ChemBioTalks conference on enzymatic tagging of proteins using ADD technology, which is based on the flavin transferase ApbE. The talk, published through ACS Bioconjugate Chemistry, is drawing attention among researchers interested in chemical biology tools for labelling and studying proteins.

A researcher reports using Anthropic's Opus 5.5 AI model to identify a previously unknown eyewitness account of the dodo, the extinct flightless bird of Mauritius. The finding, described on the Res Obscura history blog, is drawing attention for showing how large language models can aid archival discovery in historical research.