Texas-based company Colossal plans to revive wooly mammoths and dodo birds

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Colossal, the Texas-based company working to bring the wooly mammoth back from extinction, expects the first calves to be born in 2028. It also plans to revive the dodo bird. The company's leaders are building a to-do list of species they hope to revive, some of which are not fully extinct yet.

Colossal, the Texas-based company working to bring the wooly mammoth back from extinction, expects the first calves to be born in 2028. Its leaders are building a to-do list of species they hope to revive, and some of them aren’t even fully extinct yet. The company currently expects the first woolly mammoth calves to be born sometime in 2028, and thinks the dodo bird will be reintroduced to its once-native habitat even before that.

A big, hairy elephant and a flightless bird whose name has become synonymous with stupidity may not sound as exciting as giant lizard predators grown from DNA extracted from a mosquito in amber (which Colossal CEO and co-founder Ben Lamm assured the Star-Telegram would be impossible with today’s technology anyway), but being thrilling in that sense isn’t the goal for the brains behind the company

 

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