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At colossal biosciences in Dallas, the mission is clear.

Pair cutting-edge science with high-tech tools to reach a goal of prehistoric proportions.

We're less than five years away from seeing mammoths back on the planet.

Not if it's going to happen when it's going to happen.

It is simply a function of time.

Which is why co-founder and CEO Ben Lamb says now's the time to embrace the term de-extinction.

The process of creating an extinct species, or at least an animal, that resembles one.

In Colossal's case, the woolly mammoth, which died off roughly 4,000 years ago.

We turn now to that remarkable scientific breakthrough, 4,000 years ago. We turned now to that remarkable scientific breakthrough.

13,000 years after the last dire wolf walked the earth,

scientists say they've now brought them back.

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