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 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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“We’re at the point where we need to do something dramatically innovative.”

Barney Long
Senior Director of Conservation Strategies 
Re:wild
.…on partnering with Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences to save species threatened by extinction.

Long’s Austin-based Re:wild and Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences have announced a new partnership to accelerate global efforts “to save species on the brink of extinction, search for lost species, and restore key habitats for species recovery and rewilding.”…

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On April 8, people across North Texas will look skyward to watch the moon cover the sun in an historic total solar eclipse. Exactly two weeks later on Earth Day, Dallas-based EarthX will reverse that by asking the world to turn its gaze to our planet—with an eye to advancing its sustainability for generations to come.…

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Last January, we told you about Texas-based Colossal Biosciences’ plans to “de-extinct” the dodo—a large flightless bird which was hunted out of existence on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius in 1662.

“The dodo is the symbol of man-caused extinction,” Dallas-based Colossal Co-Founder and CEO Ben Lamm told us at the time.…

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In a first-of-its-kind initiative, Texas-based Colossal Biosciences, the world’s first de-extinction and species preservation company, has partnered with Save the Elephants to use cutting-edge drone technology and machine learning to help track African elephants in Kenya.

Save the Elephants is a leading nonprofit that works to secure a future for wild African elephants and the technology will be used for both conservation and research purposes.…

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OK, it may not be as big—or as fire-breathing—as the dragons that swooped over Westeros on “Game of Thrones.” But Australia’s Victorian Grassland Earless Dragon is every bit as magical for simply hanging in there, decades after many thought it was extinct.…

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Only two female northern white rhinos remain in the world, marking them as the most endangered mammals on the planet.

In a move that diversifies its de-extinction ambitions, Texas-based Colossal Biosciences, previously in headlines for its $75 million woolly mammoth revival project, has joined forces with BioRescue to save the white rhino species.…

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