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The T-Rex won't be back anytime soon as the start-up will look at something more harmless such as the dodo.
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It’s not quite the Jurassic Park yet but a biotechnology start-up that promises to resurrect woolly mammoths is now the first “de-extinction unicorn”, with a valuation said to be over a billion dollars before bringing back a single lost species.
Colossal Biosciences, the Dallas-based start-up, is making public a new round of investment that will help fund its effort to bring back perhaps the most famously extinct animal of them all – the dodo.
