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Colossal Biosciences Targets Bluebuck Revival via Gene Editing

5/1/2026

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Colossal Biosciences announced it will attempt to resurrect the South African bluebuck using genome editing.
European colonists hunted the bluebuck to extinction between 1650 and 1800.
The species now survives only in historic drawings and scattered museum specimens.
Colossal previously created three dire-wolf look-alikes by editing gray-wolf DNA and is also pursuing woolly mammoth, Tasmanian tiger, dodo and moa de-extinction projects.

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Colossal Biosciences announced it will attempt to resurrect the South African bluebuck using genome editing.
European colonists hunted the bluebuck to extinction between 1650 and 1800.
The species now survives only in historic drawings and scattered museum specimens.
Colossal previously created three dire-wolf look-alikes by editing gray-wolf DNA and is also pursuing woolly mammoth, Tasmanian tiger, dodo and moa de-extinction projects.