At first blush, it sounds like a line from Jurassic Park, the fictional dream of resurrecting creatures long dead: “We have the DNA, the technology and the leading experts in the field. Next, we will have the woolly mammoth. Alive again.”
But this is a very real statement from Dallas-based biotech company Colossal, which is serious about its genetic engineering mission to recreate a version of the six-ton animal that roamed the Siberian tundra 10,000 years ago. The company’s de-extinction project aims to fill an ecological niche by letting woolly mammoth 2.0 pound the Arctic tundra once again—as soon as 2027. “Most importantly, it will inhabit the same ecosystem previously abandoned by the Mammoth’s extinction,” according to Colossal’s website.
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