De-extinction was big news in 2025 – but didn’t live up to the hype
Colossal’s so-called dire wolf Colossal Biosciences Colossal Biosciences, which calls itself “the world’s first and only de-extinction company”, generated a lot of headlines this year. The hype, however, bore little relation to reality. First, the US-based firm made a splash with woolly mice “engineered to express multiple key mammoth-like traits”. Victoria Herridge at the University…
