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A historian used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 to identify a previously overlooked eyewitness record of the extinct dodo in historical archives, sharing the discovery online. Readers are discussing how large language models can assist archival research, flagging obscure references that might otherwise remain buried in digitised collections.

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.

A researcher reports using Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 to help discover a previously unknown eyewitness record of the dodo, the extinct flightless bird of Mauritius. The finding, described on the Res Obscura newsletter, suggests AI tools can assist historians in surfacing overlooked archival documents, and the story is drawing early attention on discussion forums.

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.