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The Story

The future of de-extinction

The Story

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Politics, Daily News, News

41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

An American Biosciences company claims to have ‘de-extincted’ prehistoric dire wolves. Next they plan to bring back the woolly mammoth and the dodo. But even if they could, should they?


This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestory


Guest: Tom Whipple, Science Writer, The Times.


Host: Manveen Rana.


Producer: Shabnam Grewal.


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Further listening: The cost of being ugly 


Clips: Colossal Biosciences, Game of Thrones/HBO.


Photo: Colossal Biosciences.


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From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story.

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I'm Manvien Rana.

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1:28.3

And for good reason, it's supposed to be extinct, or at least it was, until an American biotech company got involved.

1:37.3

Colossal is the world's first de-extinction company, And we combine de-extinction with species preservation.

1:45.1

And our goal is to make extinction a thing of the past. It's a big goal. In fact, a colossal one.

1:52.1

But this company claims it can reverse the extinction process and bring back species that died

1:58.6

out thousands of years ago. We're trying to develop these new techniques in order to save animals,

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