colossal
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Colossal Biosciences’ claim to have achieved the ‘de-extinction’ of the dire wolf has been questioned by geneticists, but the media swallowed the claim whole.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
Colossal says it’s considering Asian or African elephants as surrogate parents for its mammoths.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
Colossal Biosciences would again edit the genes of a close living relative, such as the emu or tinamou, and call it a moa.
From Slate • Aug. 8, 2025
Colossal Biosciences does not intend to unleash the “moas” into the wild.
From Slate • Aug. 8, 2025
“Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude,” he wrote to William Tudor, and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territory.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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