#de-extinction — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #de-extinction, aggregated by home.social.
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐑🧬 Dolly the #sheep made #history 30 years ago, but #cloning has since evolved into a specialized biotechnological tool.
This overview explains somatic cell nuclear transfer and how current #research by international teams impacts #livestock, #medicine, and #endangeredspecies #conservation, and clarifies why human cloning and de-extinction remain complex challenges.
👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-07-years-dolly-sheep-born-cloning.html
#epigenetics #stemcells #biotechnology #genetics #deextinction #ferrets #science #animals #wildlife #reproduction
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐑🧬 Dolly the #sheep made #history 30 years ago, but #cloning has since evolved into a specialized biotechnological tool.
This overview explains somatic cell nuclear transfer and how current #research by international teams impacts #livestock, #medicine, and #endangeredspecies #conservation, and clarifies why human cloning and de-extinction remain complex challenges.
👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-07-years-dolly-sheep-born-cloning.html
#epigenetics #stemcells #biotechnology #genetics #deextinction #ferrets #science #animals #wildlife #reproduction
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐑🧬 Dolly the #sheep made #history 30 years ago, but #cloning has since evolved into a specialized biotechnological tool.
This overview explains somatic cell nuclear transfer and how current #research by international teams impacts #livestock, #medicine, and #endangeredspecies #conservation, and clarifies why human cloning and de-extinction remain complex challenges.
👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-07-years-dolly-sheep-born-cloning.html
#epigenetics #stemcells #biotechnology #genetics #deextinction #ferrets #science #animals #wildlife #reproduction
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐑🧬 Dolly the #sheep made #history 30 years ago, but #cloning has since evolved into a specialized biotechnological tool.
This overview explains somatic cell nuclear transfer and how current #research by international teams impacts #livestock, #medicine, and #endangeredspecies #conservation, and clarifies why human cloning and de-extinction remain complex challenges.
👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-07-years-dolly-sheep-born-cloning.html
#epigenetics #stemcells #biotechnology #genetics #deextinction #ferrets #science #animals #wildlife #reproduction
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐑🧬 Dolly the #sheep made #history 30 years ago, but #cloning has since evolved into a specialized biotechnological tool.
This overview explains somatic cell nuclear transfer and how current #research by international teams impacts #livestock, #medicine, and #endangeredspecies #conservation, and clarifies why human cloning and de-extinction remain complex challenges.
👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-07-years-dolly-sheep-born-cloning.html
#epigenetics #stemcells #biotechnology #genetics #deextinction #ferrets #science #animals #wildlife #reproduction
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🧬🤔 An archaeologist unpacks the #science and #ethics of #cloning extinct #humans like #Neanderthals.
The piece explains why Colossal Biosciences’ widely reported #direwolf de-extinction was actually a genetically tweaked gray #wolf, not a true clone. It walks through how real cloning works, why intact ancient #DNA simply doesn’t exist for Neanderthals, and whether we should even try.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/clone-neanderthals/
#deextinction #genetics #science #paleontology #archaeology #evolution #homosapiens #colossalbiosciences #direwolf
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🧬🤔 An archaeologist unpacks the #science and #ethics of #cloning extinct #humans like #Neanderthals.
The piece explains why Colossal Biosciences’ widely reported #direwolf de-extinction was actually a genetically tweaked gray #wolf, not a true clone. It walks through how real cloning works, why intact ancient #DNA simply doesn’t exist for Neanderthals, and whether we should even try.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/clone-neanderthals/
#deextinction #genetics #science #paleontology #archaeology #evolution #homosapiens #colossalbiosciences #direwolf
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🧬🤔 An archaeologist unpacks the #science and #ethics of #cloning extinct #humans like #Neanderthals.
The piece explains why Colossal Biosciences’ widely reported #direwolf de-extinction was actually a genetically tweaked gray #wolf, not a true clone. It walks through how real cloning works, why intact ancient #DNA simply doesn’t exist for Neanderthals, and whether we should even try.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/clone-neanderthals/
#deextinction #genetics #science #paleontology #archaeology #evolution #homosapiens #colossalbiosciences #direwolf
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🧬🤔 An archaeologist unpacks the #science and #ethics of #cloning extinct #humans like #Neanderthals.
The piece explains why Colossal Biosciences’ widely reported #direwolf de-extinction was actually a genetically tweaked gray #wolf, not a true clone. It walks through how real cloning works, why intact ancient #DNA simply doesn’t exist for Neanderthals, and whether we should even try.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/clone-neanderthals/
#deextinction #genetics #science #paleontology #archaeology #evolution #homosapiens #colossalbiosciences #direwolf
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🧬🤔 An archaeologist unpacks the #science and #ethics of #cloning extinct #humans like #Neanderthals.
The piece explains why Colossal Biosciences’ widely reported #direwolf de-extinction was actually a genetically tweaked gray #wolf, not a true clone. It walks through how real cloning works, why intact ancient #DNA simply doesn’t exist for Neanderthals, and whether we should even try.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/clone-neanderthals/
#deextinction #genetics #science #paleontology #archaeology #evolution #homosapiens #colossalbiosciences #direwolf
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Tech startup Colossal is working on bringing Tasmanian tigers (they look like a mix of dogs, zebras and kangaroos), which went extinct in 1936, back to life. MIT Press Reader looks at the ethical debate over de-extinction and its role as a radical conservation effort.
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Tech startup Colossal is working on bringing Tasmanian tigers (they look like a mix of dogs, zebras and kangaroos), which went extinct in 1936, back to life. MIT Press Reader looks at the ethical debate over de-extinction and its role as a radical conservation effort.
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Tech startup Colossal is working on bringing Tasmanian tigers (they look like a mix of dogs, zebras and kangaroos), which went extinct in 1936, back to life. MIT Press Reader looks at the ethical debate over de-extinction and its role as a radical conservation effort.
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Tech startup Colossal is working on bringing Tasmanian tigers (they look like a mix of dogs, zebras and kangaroos), which went extinct in 1936, back to life. MIT Press Reader looks at the ethical debate over de-extinction and its role as a radical conservation effort.
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Tech startup Colossal is working on bringing Tasmanian tigers (they look like a mix of dogs, zebras and kangaroos), which went extinct in 1936, back to life. MIT Press Reader looks at the ethical debate over de-extinction and its role as a radical conservation effort.
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Some very relevant critical remarks concerning the claim of Colossal, that they have made giant steps in de-extinction ancient giant birds by creating an artificial egg, incubator, that would allow hatching those birds embryos. And critical remarks as well in general on Colossal's claims about resurrect extinct species.
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Some very relevant critical remarks concerning the claim of Colossal, that they have made giant steps in de-extinction ancient giant birds by creating an artificial egg, incubator, that would allow hatching those birds embryos. And critical remarks as well in general on Colossal's claims about resurrect extinct species.
#deextinction #woolymammoth #dodo #moa #evolution -
De‑extinction company says it's made an artificial egg—if true, it could help save living species. Colossal's artificial egg could be groundbreaking science and deliver a useful tool for conservation. But its announcement includes no data or peer-reviewed scientific publications, making it difficult to independently assess the claim. Which has been addressed by Jerry Coyne as well, in his blog Why Evolution Is True (NextPost)
#evolution #deextinction #biodiversity #moahttps://phys.org/news/2026-05-deextinction-company-artificial-egg-true.html
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De‑extinction company says it's made an artificial egg—if true, it could help save living species. Colossal's artificial egg could be groundbreaking science and deliver a useful tool for conservation. But its announcement includes no data or peer-reviewed scientific publications, making it difficult to independently assess the claim. Which has been addressed by Jerry Coyne as well, in his blog Why Evolution Is True (NextPost)
#evolution #deextinction #biodiversity #moahttps://phys.org/news/2026-05-deextinction-company-artificial-egg-true.html
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De-extinction startup hatches live chicks in artificial environment https://www.byteseu.com/2038146/ #ArtificialEnvironment #ColossalInc #DeExtinction #environment #ExtinctSpecies
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🐣🥚 A #biotech company hatched 26 #chicks using a #3D-printed artificial eggshell, aiming to eventually birth #birds resembling the extinct #moa.
But independent scientists note the #tech lacks key natural egg components – and genetically modifying a #bird isn’t the same as reviving a lost species.
#deextinction #3dprinting #genetics #newzealand #paleontology #conservation #science #biology #innovation #wildlife
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🐣🥚 A #biotech company hatched 26 #chicks using a #3D-printed artificial eggshell, aiming to eventually birth #birds resembling the extinct #moa.
But independent scientists note the #tech lacks key natural egg components – and genetically modifying a #bird isn’t the same as reviving a lost species.
#deextinction #3dprinting #genetics #newzealand #paleontology #conservation #science #biology #innovation #wildlife
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🐣🥚 A #biotech company hatched 26 #chicks using a #3D-printed artificial eggshell, aiming to eventually birth #birds resembling the extinct #moa.
But independent scientists note the #tech lacks key natural egg components – and genetically modifying a #bird isn’t the same as reviving a lost species.
#deextinction #3dprinting #genetics #newzealand #paleontology #conservation #science #biology #innovation #wildlife
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🐣🥚 A #biotech company hatched 26 #chicks using a #3D-printed artificial eggshell, aiming to eventually birth #birds resembling the extinct #moa.
But independent scientists note the #tech lacks key natural egg components – and genetically modifying a #bird isn’t the same as reviving a lost species.
#deextinction #3dprinting #genetics #newzealand #paleontology #conservation #science #biology #innovation #wildlife
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🐣🥚 A #biotech company hatched 26 #chicks using a #3D-printed artificial eggshell, aiming to eventually birth #birds resembling the extinct #moa.
But independent scientists note the #tech lacks key natural egg components – and genetically modifying a #bird isn’t the same as reviving a lost species.
#deextinction #3dprinting #genetics #newzealand #paleontology #conservation #science #biology #innovation #wildlife
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Independent scientists say the #technology, while impressive, lacks some components to be truly considered an artificial egg. And they said the idea of reviving #extinct beasts is likely impossible.
“They might be able to use this technology to help them make a #GeneticallyModified bird, but that’s just a genetically modified bird. It’s not a moa,” said evolutionary biologist Vincent Lynch with the University at Buffalo.
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Independent scientists say the #technology, while impressive, lacks some components to be truly considered an artificial egg. And they said the idea of reviving #extinct beasts is likely impossible.
“They might be able to use this technology to help them make a #GeneticallyModified bird, but that’s just a genetically modified bird. It’s not a moa,” said evolutionary biologist Vincent Lynch with the University at Buffalo.
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Independent scientists say the #technology, while impressive, lacks some components to be truly considered an artificial egg. And they said the idea of reviving #extinct beasts is likely impossible.
“They might be able to use this technology to help them make a #GeneticallyModified bird, but that’s just a genetically modified bird. It’s not a moa,” said evolutionary biologist Vincent Lynch with the University at Buffalo.
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Independent scientists say the #technology, while impressive, lacks some components to be truly considered an artificial egg. And they said the idea of reviving #extinct beasts is likely impossible.
“They might be able to use this technology to help them make a #GeneticallyModified bird, but that’s just a genetically modified bird. It’s not a moa,” said evolutionary biologist Vincent Lynch with the University at Buffalo.
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Independent scientists say the #technology, while impressive, lacks some components to be truly considered an artificial egg. And they said the idea of reviving #extinct beasts is likely impossible.
“They might be able to use this technology to help them make a #GeneticallyModified bird, but that’s just a genetically modified bird. It’s not a moa,” said evolutionary biologist Vincent Lynch with the University at Buffalo.
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Colossal’s CEO Ben Lamm said the artificial egg technology could one day be scaled up to genetically tweak living birds to resemble New Zealand’s extinct South Island giant moa, whose eggs are 80 times the size of a chicken’s & would be difficult for any modern bird to lay.
“We wanted to build something that nature has done a pretty good job of developing and make it better and scalable and even more efficient,” Lamm said.
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Colossal’s CEO Ben Lamm said the artificial egg technology could one day be scaled up to genetically tweak living birds to resemble New Zealand’s extinct South Island giant moa, whose eggs are 80 times the size of a chicken’s & would be difficult for any modern bird to lay.
“We wanted to build something that nature has done a pretty good job of developing and make it better and scalable and even more efficient,” Lamm said.
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Colossal’s CEO Ben Lamm said the artificial egg technology could one day be scaled up to genetically tweak living birds to resemble New Zealand’s extinct South Island giant moa, whose eggs are 80 times the size of a chicken’s & would be difficult for any modern bird to lay.
“We wanted to build something that nature has done a pretty good job of developing and make it better and scalable and even more efficient,” Lamm said.
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Colossal’s CEO Ben Lamm said the artificial egg technology could one day be scaled up to genetically tweak living birds to resemble New Zealand’s extinct South Island giant moa, whose eggs are 80 times the size of a chicken’s & would be difficult for any modern bird to lay.
“We wanted to build something that nature has done a pretty good job of developing and make it better and scalable and even more efficient,” Lamm said.
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Colossal’s CEO Ben Lamm said the artificial egg technology could one day be scaled up to genetically tweak living birds to resemble New Zealand’s extinct South Island giant moa, whose eggs are 80 times the size of a chicken’s & would be difficult for any modern bird to lay.
“We wanted to build something that nature has done a pretty good job of developing and make it better and scalable and even more efficient,” Lamm said.
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26 baby chickens — ranging from a few days to several months old — were born from a 3D printed lattice structure that mimics an eggshell, according to #ColossalBiosciences.
Colossal previously announced it had #GeneticallyEngineered living animals to resemble extinct species, including mice with long hair like the #WoollyMammoth & wolf pups that take after #DireWolves.
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26 baby chickens — ranging from a few days to several months old — were born from a 3D printed lattice structure that mimics an eggshell, according to #ColossalBiosciences.
Colossal previously announced it had #GeneticallyEngineered living animals to resemble extinct species, including mice with long hair like the #WoollyMammoth & wolf pups that take after #DireWolves.
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26 baby chickens — ranging from a few days to several months old — were born from a 3D printed lattice structure that mimics an eggshell, according to #ColossalBiosciences.
Colossal previously announced it had #GeneticallyEngineered living animals to resemble extinct species, including mice with long hair like the #WoollyMammoth & wolf pups that take after #DireWolves.
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26 baby chickens — ranging from a few days to several months old — were born from a 3D printed lattice structure that mimics an eggshell, according to #ColossalBiosciences.
Colossal previously announced it had #GeneticallyEngineered living animals to resemble extinct species, including mice with long hair like the #WoollyMammoth & wolf pups that take after #DireWolves.
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26 baby chickens — ranging from a few days to several months old — were born from a 3D printed lattice structure that mimics an eggshell, according to #ColossalBiosciences.
Colossal previously announced it had #GeneticallyEngineered living animals to resemble extinct species, including mice with long hair like the #WoollyMammoth & wolf pups that take after #DireWolves.
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A #DeExtinction company has hatched live chicks from an artificial eggshell
A #biotech company that aims to #resurrect lost creatures said Tuesday it has hatched live chicks in an artificial environment — a development that was met with mixed reviews from scientists & critics of its de-#extinction mission.
#science
https://apnews.com/article/deextinction-colossal-giant-moa-artificial-egg-a1ad16c5fb00bf2559b7a9fcfbb95239 -
kerazy
A #DeExtinction company has hatched live chicks from an artificial eggshell
A #biotech company that aims to #resurrect lost creatures said Tuesday it has hatched live chicks in an artificial environment — a development that was met with mixed reviews from scientists & critics of its de-#extinction mission.
#science
https://apnews.com/article/deextinction-colossal-giant-moa-artificial-egg-a1ad16c5fb00bf2559b7a9fcfbb95239 -
kerazy
A #DeExtinction company has hatched live chicks from an artificial eggshell
A #biotech company that aims to #resurrect lost creatures said Tuesday it has hatched live chicks in an artificial environment — a development that was met with mixed reviews from scientists & critics of its de-#extinction mission.
#science
https://apnews.com/article/deextinction-colossal-giant-moa-artificial-egg-a1ad16c5fb00bf2559b7a9fcfbb95239 -
kerazy
A #DeExtinction company has hatched live chicks from an artificial eggshell
A #biotech company that aims to #resurrect lost creatures said Tuesday it has hatched live chicks in an artificial environment — a development that was met with mixed reviews from scientists & critics of its de-#extinction mission.
#science
https://apnews.com/article/deextinction-colossal-giant-moa-artificial-egg-a1ad16c5fb00bf2559b7a9fcfbb95239 -
kerazy
A #DeExtinction company has hatched live chicks from an artificial eggshell
A #biotech company that aims to #resurrect lost creatures said Tuesday it has hatched live chicks in an artificial environment — a development that was met with mixed reviews from scientists & critics of its de-#extinction mission.
#science
https://apnews.com/article/deextinction-colossal-giant-moa-artificial-egg-a1ad16c5fb00bf2559b7a9fcfbb95239 -
Colossal Biosciences Is Making Jurassic Park Look Like a Pitch Deck
Modern biotechnology labs are driving advances in gene editing and de-extinction researchDear Cherubs, Dallas has apparently decided extinction is just a product category. Colossal Biosciences is now a billionaire-level biotech spectacle, with the company saying its latest Series C brought total funding to $615 million and ABC News reporting a roster of celebrity backers that includes Tom Brady, Tiger Woods, Paris Hilton and Peter Jackson. Dallas Innovates also reported that the CIA’s venture arm, In-Q-Tel, invested in Colossal back in 2022.
The result is a company that sounds like it was brainstormed by a film studio, a venture fund and a very committed science teacher. Colossal says it is working on de-extinction projects tied to the woolly mammoth, dodo, thylacine and dire wolf, using gene editing, synthetic biology and related conservation tools. So no, this is not literally Jurassic Park; it is more like Jurassic Park after legal review and a lot of grant money.
THE TEA, BUT WITH MICROPIPETTES
In April, Reuters reported that Colossal announced three genetically engineered wolf pups and called them the world’s first successfully “de-extincted” animals, while outside experts were more cautious and described them as genetically modified gray wolves with added dire-wolf traits. ABC News said Colossal edited gray wolf cells at multiple sites and noted the two species are about 99.5% genetically identical, which is a very impressive number and also a reminder that biology is rude and complicated.
That is the key detail the movie version never pauses for: the company is not dusting off a frozen dinosaur and pressing play. It is using ancient DNA, gene editing and surrogate biology to create something that resembles an extinct species closely enough to trigger headlines, debates and a healthy amount of side-eye. The label “de-extincted” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
WHY THE MONEY FLOWS
The money makes more sense when you look at the technology stack. Dallas Innovates reported that In-Q-Tel said its interest in Colossal was “less about the mammoths and more about the capability,” while Colossal’s own materials say the work could scale CRISPR, synthetic biology, artificial wombs and genomic preservation platforms. In other words, the extinct-animal angle is the headline; the platform is the business.
Colossal has also built a pop-culture-friendly halo around the science. Its advisory board page lists Tom Brady and George R.R. Martin among its cultural advisors, which is exactly the kind of sentence that makes the internet stop scrolling for a second. That is the trick here: make de-extinction feel part science, part blockbuster, part meme, and suddenly the cap table looks almost inevitable.
The hot take is simple: this is not a cartoonish clone factory, and it is not pure hype either. It is a very expensive attempt to push gene editing, cloning-adjacent methods and reproductive tech into territory that could one day matter for conservation as much as spectacle. The dinosaurs are still fiction, but the lab bills are extremely real.
Sources list
The Thisclaimer logo blends a classic warning symbol with a brain icon to represent critical thinking, curiosity, and thoughtful disclaimers. #animals #biotechnology #cia #colossalBiosciences #crispr #deExtinction #direWolf #geneEditing #inQTel #nature #news #science #syntheticBiology #texasStartup
ABC News — https://abcnews.go.com/US/dire-wolf-revived-biotech-companys-de-extinction-process/story?id=120558562
Reuters — https://www.reuters.com/science/us-company-resurrects-extinct-dire-wolf-or-some-version-it-2025-04-08/
Dallas Innovates — https://dallasinnovates.com/mammoth-interest-the-cia-invests-in-dallas-based-colossal-biosciences/
Colossal Biosciences — https://colossal.com/colossal-secures-200m-to-accelerate-de-extinction-and-genomic-innovation/
Colossal Biosciences — https://colossal.com/advisors/
Wikimedia Commons (Laboratory.jpg) — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laboratory.jpg -
Colossal Biosciences Is Making Jurassic Park Look Like a Pitch Deck
Modern biotechnology labs are driving advances in gene editing and de-extinction researchDear Cherubs, Dallas has apparently decided extinction is just a product category. Colossal Biosciences is now a billionaire-level biotech spectacle, with the company saying its latest Series C brought total funding to $615 million and ABC News reporting a roster of celebrity backers that includes Tom Brady, Tiger Woods, Paris Hilton and Peter Jackson. Dallas Innovates also reported that the CIA’s venture arm, In-Q-Tel, invested in Colossal back in 2022.
The result is a company that sounds like it was brainstormed by a film studio, a venture fund and a very committed science teacher. Colossal says it is working on de-extinction projects tied to the woolly mammoth, dodo, thylacine and dire wolf, using gene editing, synthetic biology and related conservation tools. So no, this is not literally Jurassic Park; it is more like Jurassic Park after legal review and a lot of grant money.
THE TEA, BUT WITH MICROPIPETTES
In April, Reuters reported that Colossal announced three genetically engineered wolf pups and called them the world’s first successfully “de-extincted” animals, while outside experts were more cautious and described them as genetically modified gray wolves with added dire-wolf traits. ABC News said Colossal edited gray wolf cells at multiple sites and noted the two species are about 99.5% genetically identical, which is a very impressive number and also a reminder that biology is rude and complicated.
That is the key detail the movie version never pauses for: the company is not dusting off a frozen dinosaur and pressing play. It is using ancient DNA, gene editing and surrogate biology to create something that resembles an extinct species closely enough to trigger headlines, debates and a healthy amount of side-eye. The label “de-extincted” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
WHY THE MONEY FLOWS
The money makes more sense when you look at the technology stack. Dallas Innovates reported that In-Q-Tel said its interest in Colossal was “less about the mammoths and more about the capability,” while Colossal’s own materials say the work could scale CRISPR, synthetic biology, artificial wombs and genomic preservation platforms. In other words, the extinct-animal angle is the headline; the platform is the business.
Colossal has also built a pop-culture-friendly halo around the science. Its advisory board page lists Tom Brady and George R.R. Martin among its cultural advisors, which is exactly the kind of sentence that makes the internet stop scrolling for a second. That is the trick here: make de-extinction feel part science, part blockbuster, part meme, and suddenly the cap table looks almost inevitable.
The hot take is simple: this is not a cartoonish clone factory, and it is not pure hype either. It is a very expensive attempt to push gene editing, cloning-adjacent methods and reproductive tech into territory that could one day matter for conservation as much as spectacle. The dinosaurs are still fiction, but the lab bills are extremely real.
Sources list
The Thisclaimer logo blends a classic warning symbol with a brain icon to represent critical thinking, curiosity, and thoughtful disclaimers. #animals #biotechnology #cia #colossalBiosciences #crispr #deExtinction #direWolf #geneEditing #inQTel #nature #news #science #syntheticBiology #texasStartup
ABC News — https://abcnews.go.com/US/dire-wolf-revived-biotech-companys-de-extinction-process/story?id=120558562
Reuters — https://www.reuters.com/science/us-company-resurrects-extinct-dire-wolf-or-some-version-it-2025-04-08/
Dallas Innovates — https://dallasinnovates.com/mammoth-interest-the-cia-invests-in-dallas-based-colossal-biosciences/
Colossal Biosciences — https://colossal.com/colossal-secures-200m-to-accelerate-de-extinction-and-genomic-innovation/
Colossal Biosciences — https://colossal.com/advisors/
Wikimedia Commons (Laboratory.jpg) — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laboratory.jpg -
Colossal Biosciences Is Making Jurassic Park Look Like a Pitch Deck
Modern biotechnology labs are driving advances in gene editing and de-extinction researchDear Cherubs, Dallas has apparently decided extinction is just a product category. Colossal Biosciences is now a billionaire-level biotech spectacle, with the company saying its latest Series C brought total funding to $615 million and ABC News reporting a roster of celebrity backers that includes Tom Brady, Tiger Woods, Paris Hilton and Peter Jackson. Dallas Innovates also reported that the CIA’s venture arm, In-Q-Tel, invested in Colossal back in 2022.
The result is a company that sounds like it was brainstormed by a film studio, a venture fund and a very committed science teacher. Colossal says it is working on de-extinction projects tied to the woolly mammoth, dodo, thylacine and dire wolf, using gene editing, synthetic biology and related conservation tools. So no, this is not literally Jurassic Park; it is more like Jurassic Park after legal review and a lot of grant money.
THE TEA, BUT WITH MICROPIPETTES
In April, Reuters reported that Colossal announced three genetically engineered wolf pups and called them the world’s first successfully “de-extincted” animals, while outside experts were more cautious and described them as genetically modified gray wolves with added dire-wolf traits. ABC News said Colossal edited gray wolf cells at multiple sites and noted the two species are about 99.5% genetically identical, which is a very impressive number and also a reminder that biology is rude and complicated.
That is the key detail the movie version never pauses for: the company is not dusting off a frozen dinosaur and pressing play. It is using ancient DNA, gene editing and surrogate biology to create something that resembles an extinct species closely enough to trigger headlines, debates and a healthy amount of side-eye. The label “de-extincted” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
WHY THE MONEY FLOWS
The money makes more sense when you look at the technology stack. Dallas Innovates reported that In-Q-Tel said its interest in Colossal was “less about the mammoths and more about the capability,” while Colossal’s own materials say the work could scale CRISPR, synthetic biology, artificial wombs and genomic preservation platforms. In other words, the extinct-animal angle is the headline; the platform is the business.
Colossal has also built a pop-culture-friendly halo around the science. Its advisory board page lists Tom Brady and George R.R. Martin among its cultural advisors, which is exactly the kind of sentence that makes the internet stop scrolling for a second. That is the trick here: make de-extinction feel part science, part blockbuster, part meme, and suddenly the cap table looks almost inevitable.
The hot take is simple: this is not a cartoonish clone factory, and it is not pure hype either. It is a very expensive attempt to push gene editing, cloning-adjacent methods and reproductive tech into territory that could one day matter for conservation as much as spectacle. The dinosaurs are still fiction, but the lab bills are extremely real.
Sources list
The Thisclaimer logo blends a classic warning symbol with a brain icon to represent critical thinking, curiosity, and thoughtful disclaimers. #animals #biotechnology #cia #colossalBiosciences #crispr #deExtinction #direWolf #geneEditing #inQTel #nature #news #science #syntheticBiology #texasStartup
ABC News — https://abcnews.go.com/US/dire-wolf-revived-biotech-companys-de-extinction-process/story?id=120558562
Reuters — https://www.reuters.com/science/us-company-resurrects-extinct-dire-wolf-or-some-version-it-2025-04-08/
Dallas Innovates — https://dallasinnovates.com/mammoth-interest-the-cia-invests-in-dallas-based-colossal-biosciences/
Colossal Biosciences — https://colossal.com/colossal-secures-200m-to-accelerate-de-extinction-and-genomic-innovation/
Colossal Biosciences — https://colossal.com/advisors/
Wikimedia Commons (Laboratory.jpg) — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laboratory.jpg -
Colossal Biosciences Is Making Jurassic Park Look Like a Pitch Deck
Modern biotechnology labs are driving advances in gene editing and de-extinction researchDear Cherubs, Dallas has apparently decided extinction is just a product category. Colossal Biosciences is now a billionaire-level biotech spectacle, with the company saying its latest Series C brought total funding to $615 million and ABC News reporting a roster of celebrity backers that includes Tom Brady, Tiger Woods, Paris Hilton and Peter Jackson. Dallas Innovates also reported that the CIA’s venture arm, In-Q-Tel, invested in Colossal back in 2022.
The result is a company that sounds like it was brainstormed by a film studio, a venture fund and a very committed science teacher. Colossal says it is working on de-extinction projects tied to the woolly mammoth, dodo, thylacine and dire wolf, using gene editing, synthetic biology and related conservation tools. So no, this is not literally Jurassic Park; it is more like Jurassic Park after legal review and a lot of grant money.
THE TEA, BUT WITH MICROPIPETTES
In April, Reuters reported that Colossal announced three genetically engineered wolf pups and called them the world’s first successfully “de-extincted” animals, while outside experts were more cautious and described them as genetically modified gray wolves with added dire-wolf traits. ABC News said Colossal edited gray wolf cells at multiple sites and noted the two species are about 99.5% genetically identical, which is a very impressive number and also a reminder that biology is rude and complicated.
That is the key detail the movie version never pauses for: the company is not dusting off a frozen dinosaur and pressing play. It is using ancient DNA, gene editing and surrogate biology to create something that resembles an extinct species closely enough to trigger headlines, debates and a healthy amount of side-eye. The label “de-extincted” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
WHY THE MONEY FLOWS
The money makes more sense when you look at the technology stack. Dallas Innovates reported that In-Q-Tel said its interest in Colossal was “less about the mammoths and more about the capability,” while Colossal’s own materials say the work could scale CRISPR, synthetic biology, artificial wombs and genomic preservation platforms. In other words, the extinct-animal angle is the headline; the platform is the business.
Colossal has also built a pop-culture-friendly halo around the science. Its advisory board page lists Tom Brady and George R.R. Martin among its cultural advisors, which is exactly the kind of sentence that makes the internet stop scrolling for a second. That is the trick here: make de-extinction feel part science, part blockbuster, part meme, and suddenly the cap table looks almost inevitable.
The hot take is simple: this is not a cartoonish clone factory, and it is not pure hype either. It is a very expensive attempt to push gene editing, cloning-adjacent methods and reproductive tech into territory that could one day matter for conservation as much as spectacle. The dinosaurs are still fiction, but the lab bills are extremely real.
Sources list
The Thisclaimer logo blends a classic warning symbol with a brain icon to represent critical thinking, curiosity, and thoughtful disclaimers. #animals #biotechnology #cia #colossalBiosciences #crispr #deExtinction #direWolf #geneEditing #inQTel #nature #news #science #syntheticBiology #texasStartup
ABC News — https://abcnews.go.com/US/dire-wolf-revived-biotech-companys-de-extinction-process/story?id=120558562
Reuters — https://www.reuters.com/science/us-company-resurrects-extinct-dire-wolf-or-some-version-it-2025-04-08/
Dallas Innovates — https://dallasinnovates.com/mammoth-interest-the-cia-invests-in-dallas-based-colossal-biosciences/
Colossal Biosciences — https://colossal.com/colossal-secures-200m-to-accelerate-de-extinction-and-genomic-innovation/
Colossal Biosciences — https://colossal.com/advisors/
Wikimedia Commons (Laboratory.jpg) — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laboratory.jpg -
Colossal Biosciences Is Making Jurassic Park Look Like a Pitch Deck
Modern biotechnology labs are driving advances in gene editing and de-extinction researchDear Cherubs, Dallas has apparently decided extinction is just a product category. Colossal Biosciences is now a billionaire-level biotech spectacle, with the company saying its latest Series C brought total funding to $615 million and ABC News reporting a roster of celebrity backers that includes Tom Brady, Tiger Woods, Paris Hilton and Peter Jackson. Dallas Innovates also reported that the CIA’s venture arm, In-Q-Tel, invested in Colossal back in 2022.
The result is a company that sounds like it was brainstormed by a film studio, a venture fund and a very committed science teacher. Colossal says it is working on de-extinction projects tied to the woolly mammoth, dodo, thylacine and dire wolf, using gene editing, synthetic biology and related conservation tools. So no, this is not literally Jurassic Park; it is more like Jurassic Park after legal review and a lot of grant money.
THE TEA, BUT WITH MICROPIPETTES
In April, Reuters reported that Colossal announced three genetically engineered wolf pups and called them the world’s first successfully “de-extincted” animals, while outside experts were more cautious and described them as genetically modified gray wolves with added dire-wolf traits. ABC News said Colossal edited gray wolf cells at multiple sites and noted the two species are about 99.5% genetically identical, which is a very impressive number and also a reminder that biology is rude and complicated.
That is the key detail the movie version never pauses for: the company is not dusting off a frozen dinosaur and pressing play. It is using ancient DNA, gene editing and surrogate biology to create something that resembles an extinct species closely enough to trigger headlines, debates and a healthy amount of side-eye. The label “de-extincted” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
WHY THE MONEY FLOWS
The money makes more sense when you look at the technology stack. Dallas Innovates reported that In-Q-Tel said its interest in Colossal was “less about the mammoths and more about the capability,” while Colossal’s own materials say the work could scale CRISPR, synthetic biology, artificial wombs and genomic preservation platforms. In other words, the extinct-animal angle is the headline; the platform is the business.
Colossal has also built a pop-culture-friendly halo around the science. Its advisory board page lists Tom Brady and George R.R. Martin among its cultural advisors, which is exactly the kind of sentence that makes the internet stop scrolling for a second. That is the trick here: make de-extinction feel part science, part blockbuster, part meme, and suddenly the cap table looks almost inevitable.
The hot take is simple: this is not a cartoonish clone factory, and it is not pure hype either. It is a very expensive attempt to push gene editing, cloning-adjacent methods and reproductive tech into territory that could one day matter for conservation as much as spectacle. The dinosaurs are still fiction, but the lab bills are extremely real.
Sources list
The Thisclaimer logo blends a classic warning symbol with a brain icon to represent critical thinking, curiosity, and thoughtful disclaimers. #animals #biotechnology #cia #colossalBiosciences #crispr #deExtinction #direWolf #geneEditing #inQTel #nature #news #science #syntheticBiology #texasStartup
ABC News — https://abcnews.go.com/US/dire-wolf-revived-biotech-companys-de-extinction-process/story?id=120558562
Reuters — https://www.reuters.com/science/us-company-resurrects-extinct-dire-wolf-or-some-version-it-2025-04-08/
Dallas Innovates — https://dallasinnovates.com/mammoth-interest-the-cia-invests-in-dallas-based-colossal-biosciences/
Colossal Biosciences — https://colossal.com/colossal-secures-200m-to-accelerate-de-extinction-and-genomic-innovation/
Colossal Biosciences — https://colossal.com/advisors/
Wikimedia Commons (Laboratory.jpg) — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laboratory.jpg -
https://www.europesays.com/africa/213137/ ‘De-extinction’ Startup Wants to Revive Antelope Killed Off by South African Colonists #Africa #ColossalBiosciences #DeExtinction #EndangeredSpecies #SouthAfrica
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/345434/ Dire Wolves Brought Back From Extinction Hunting As A Pack: Report #ColossalBiosciences #DeExtinction #DireWolf #Éire #IE #Ireland #Science #Wildlife
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Scientists hunting mammoth fossils found whales 400 km inland Sometimes, new data raises more questions than it answers. https://s.faithcollapsing.com/jfwko#alaska #ancient-dna #colossal #de-extinction #mammoth #megafauna #megafaunal-extinction #paleontology #science #whales
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Scientists hunting mammoth fossils found whales 400 km inland Sometimes, new data raises more questions than it answers. https://s.faithcollapsing.com/jfwko#alaska #ancient-dna #colossal #de-extinction #mammoth #megafauna #megafaunal-extinction #paleontology #science #whales
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Scientists hunting mammoth fossils found whales 400 km inland Sometimes, new data raises more questions than it answers. https://s.faithcollapsing.com/jfwko#alaska #ancient-dna #colossal #de-extinction #mammoth #megafauna #megafaunal-extinction #paleontology #science #whales
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Scientists hunting mammoth fossils found whales 400 km inland Sometimes, new data raises more questions than it answers. https://s.faithcollapsing.com/jfwko#alaska #ancient-dna #colossal #de-extinction #mammoth #megafauna #megafaunal-extinction #paleontology #science #whales
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Scientists hunting mammoth fossils found whales 400 km inland Sometimes, new data raises more questions than it answers. https://s.faithcollapsing.com/jfwko#alaska #ancient-dna #colossal #de-extinction #mammoth #megafauna #megafaunal-extinction #paleontology #science #whales
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Scientists Aim to Bring Back the Moa – A 3.6-Metre Bird Lost for 600 Years
The giant Moa, a flightless bird that towered over New Zealand's landscapes, vanished due to human hunting. Now, a bold genetic project is exploring if we can reverse that extinction. It raises huge questions about de-extinction science, ethics, and habitat restoration.
Is it a chance to right a past wrong, or a step too far?#deextinction #moa #conservation #science #newzealand #biotechnology #ethics #birds
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Scientists Aim to Bring Back the Moa – A 3.6-Metre Bird Lost for 600 Years
The giant Moa, a flightless bird that towered over New Zealand's landscapes, vanished due to human hunting. Now, a bold genetic project is exploring if we can reverse that extinction. It raises huge questions about de-extinction science, ethics, and habitat restoration.
Is it a chance to right a past wrong, or a step too far?#deextinction #moa #conservation #science #newzealand #biotechnology #ethics #birds
