Scientists Are Reincarnating the Woolly Mammoth to Return in 4 Years

• Colossal recently added $60 million in funding to move toward a 2027 de-extinction of the woolly mammoth.

• The Dallas-based company is now working to edit the genes for the reincarnation of the mammal.

• Colossal planned to reintroduce the woolly mammoth into Russia, but that may shift.

The long-dead woolly mammoth will make its return from extinction by 2027, says Colossal, the biotech company actively working to reincarnate the ancient beast.
Last year, the Dallas-based firm scored an additional $60 million in funding to continue the, well, mammoth gene-editing work it started in 2021. If successful, not only will Colossal bring back an extinct species—one the company dubs a cold-resistant elephant—but it will also reintroduce the woolly mammoth to the same ecosystem in which it once lived in an effort to fight climate change, according to a recent Medium post.
Scientists Are Reincarnating the Woolly Mammoth to Return in 4 Years