Is this ‘de-extinction’ project actually onto something?

"Dallas-based genetics and biotech startup Colossal has raised hundreds of millions of dollars from venture capitalists, the CIA, and Peter Thiel, among others. Its buzzy "de-extinction" projects aim to "bring back" lost animals like the woolly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger, and the dire wolf - although it isn't creating copies of extinct creatures from ancient DNA, as the "de-extinction" tagline may suggest. In the case of the "dire wolves" presented to the world in 2025, the pups were gray wolve"

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This report is based on coverage originally published by The Verge.

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