Throughout Yellowstone National Park, a network of autonomous recorders is listening day and night, capturing thousands of wolf howls. That audio feeds into AI models to learn how wolves communicate, move, and behave in the wild.

The work is a partnership between the nonprofit Colossal Foundation, the Yellowstone Wolf Project, Grizzly Systems, and Yellowstone Forever.…

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The Dallas-based Colossal Foundation has announced a $500,000, five-year partnership with the Turner Endangered Species Fund to hasten recovery of the Bolson tortoise, North America’s largest and rarest tortoise species, within its prehistoric range, marking a critical advancement for Pleistocene rewilding efforts.…

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Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences is making history—again.

The world’s first de-extinction company, founded in 2021 by entrepreneur Ben Lamm and renowned Harvard geneticist George Church, has become Texas’ first “decacorn”—startup speak for a private company valued at more than $10 billion—after securing $200 million in new funding.…

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The Colossal Foundation, the nonprofit arm of Dallas-based Colossal BioSciences, has announced a $1.5 million donation to Dr. George Church’s lab at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University.

Colossal, a leading organization focused on pioneering innovative scientific solutions for conservation and biodiversity, said the funding will support groundbreaking research into artificial womb technologies with the goal of protecting endangered species and advancing wildlife conservation efforts.…

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The Colossal Foundation, the Dallas-based nonprofit arm of Colossal BioSciences has made an initial $1 million donation of its $3 million commitment to the Pask & Frankenberg Lab at the University of Melbourne in Australia to advance research and conservation efforts against chytridiomycosis, a fungal disease responsible for the extinction of at least 90 amphibian species worldwide and significant declines in over 500 other species.…

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Dallas-based Colossal Foundation has given a $1.5 million donation to the University of Melbourne in Australia to support Australian avian conservation genomics, the foundation announced.

The donation will drive the development of an advanced genomics toolkit that will spearhead new approaches to the conservation of bird species in Australia and around the world.…

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The world’s first “de-extinction” company, Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences, has formed The Colossal Foundation, announcing $50 million in new funding and the initial flagship projects in its conservation agenda—including Colossal Biovault, “the world’s largest distributed biobanking initiative.”

That biobanking effort is a hot topic these days.…

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