For years, we’ve monitored the story of the Dallas-based company Colossal Biosciences working to revive the long-extinct woolly mammoth.
They consider this a step in the right direction, albeit on a much….much smaller scale.
Colossal has been able to create a woolly mouse, with “curly whiskers and wavy, light hair that grows three times longer than that of an ordinary lab mouse,” according to CNN.
Dr. Beth Shapiro, chief science officer at Colossal, said in a news release, “It is an important step toward validating our approach to resurrecting traits that have been lost to extinction and that our goal is to restore.”
Colossal still has plans to fully recreate the mammoth, along with the dodo, and the Tasmanian tiger.
The company says they are on track to introduce their first woolly mammoth calves in 2028.
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