In 2021 George Church told Stat News that the project to resurrect the mammoth might take six years to produce a calf, and another 10 to 12 for that calf to reach sexual maturity. The US conservation nonprofit the Sierra Club, by way of comparison, raised about $100 million in donations in 2021.īut de-extincting the dodo won’t happen overnight. That’s big money in the conservation space-particularly for a biotech startup with just 83 employees. Whether creating a functional dodo technically counts as de-extinction is up for debate, but the project has piqued investors’ interest. Along with the dodo news, Colossal announced a $150 million Series B funding round, bringing its total funding to $225 million. Not mammoths or dodos exactly, but what Colossal calls “functional” mammoths or dodos. The plan is actually to edit the genomes of living relatives of extinct creatures and so create animals that occupy similar ecological niches as their distant cousins.
REAL DODO BIRD SKELETON SERIAL
The startup-cofounded in 2021 by Harvard geneticist George Church and serial entrepreneur Ben Lamm-also has plans to bring back the mammoth and the thylacine. But now a biotech startup called Colossal Biosciences is trying to make amends for humankind’s past sins: It wants to de-extinct the dodo.īringing back the dodo isn’t the first audacious de-extinction project from Colossal. It was us humans who had to come along and ruin everything with our hunting, murdering, plundering ways.
The dodo was perfectly adapted to its environment. Just look at it: It was practically asking to go extinct.Įxcept it wasn’t, of course. The chonky bird is a byword for clumsy obsolescence. Then later generations turned the fat, flightless creature into the butt of jokes for centuries to come. First, Dutch colonists and their entourage of dogs, cats, and rats erased the birds from their native Mauritius in the late 17th century.
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