A de-extinction company is in the works to bring back the essential traits of prehistoric animals.
Back when Colossal was first launched, their goal was to solely focus on the “iconic species” of the woolly mammoth.
For example, with the extinction of the dodo around 1690, their native home of Mauritius lacked that particular niche. In the case of mammals such as the woolly mammoth, scientists are able to edit their cells in a lab and clone them using somatic cell nuclear transfer — the same technology that made Dolly the sheep.
“But those will be edited and we’ll put them into the gonads of a surrogate host and they will be fertilized with another edited sperm,” Beth said.For example, Hawaiian honeycreepers are in danger of becoming extinct due to the introduction of avian malaria. But if scientists had the technology to edit their DNA, “we could make them resistant” to this parasitic disease and “give those birds a chance to survive in the changed habitat of the future.
Once these steps are implemented, Beth has hope that it can save the species that are still alive today from disappearing — and potentially reverse this “extinction crisis” we’ve ultimately found ourselves in.Hi, there! I'm a newswriter at Bored Panda, born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. I have a bachelor's degree in journalism from Boston University, as well as a philosophy minor. A few of my other hobbies include dancing, reading, cooking, or listening to a true crime podcast.
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