Companies presenting slightly altered modern animals as 'deextinct' species
April 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Companies presenting slightly altered modern animals as 'deextinct' species
There were many species of mammoths other than woollies, each with their own complex evolutionary and life histories; what would happen to deëxtinct one, but not the others‽ #MammothMonday 🧪🐋🍃
September 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
There were many species of mammoths other than woollies, each with their own complex evolutionary and life histories; what would happen to deëxtinct one, but not the others‽ #MammothMonday 🧪🐋🍃
Dire wolves are officially back — now with a care team, a marketing team and corporate headquarters.
De-extinction without restoration is just spectacle conservation.
What they really need isn’t better genetics.
It’s a time machine.
people.com/deextinct...
De-extinction without restoration is just spectacle conservation.
What they really need isn’t better genetics.
It’s a time machine.
people.com/deextinct...
February 23, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Dire wolves are officially back — now with a care team, a marketing team and corporate headquarters.
De-extinction without restoration is just spectacle conservation.
What they really need isn’t better genetics.
It’s a time machine.
people.com/deextinct...
De-extinction without restoration is just spectacle conservation.
What they really need isn’t better genetics.
It’s a time machine.
people.com/deextinct...
You've heard to deëxtinct species, de-extinct species, but have your heard of zombie ones‽ 🧪
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
“You would assume that when something's extinct, if it's rediscovered it automatically gets listed as threatened so it can get resources for protection or research,"
"But actually it doesn't get anything … species that are extinct actually are like a non-entity."
“You would assume that when something's extinct, if it's rediscovered it automatically gets listed as threatened so it can get resources for protection or research,"
"But actually it doesn't get anything … species that are extinct actually are like a non-entity."
This tiny native mouse is legally considered both dead and alive
Animals and plants aren't automatically taken off most national and state extinct species list in Australia if they are rediscovered, leaving them without protection as threatened species.
www.abc.net.au
December 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
You've heard to deëxtinct species, de-extinct species, but have your heard of zombie ones‽ 🧪
No problem #ColossalBio will just #DeExtinct them! 🧪
The fish lives in just one spot in Death Valley. Wildlife officials managed this iconic fish for decades, and last spring, just as the Trump administration was laying off scientists, the wild population of this fish plummeted to only 20. Officials then took an irrevocable step. n.pr/4wgtwoC
As federal scientists faced turmoil, the Devils Hole pupfish reached a crisis point
The Devils hole pupfish lives in just one spot in Death Valley. Wildlife officials have managed this iconic fish for decades, and last spring, just as the Trump administration was laying off all kinds of scientists, the wild population of this fish plummeted to only 20 individuals. Officials then took an irrevocable step.
n.pr
May 7, 2026 at 11:47 AM
No problem #ColossalBio will just #DeExtinct them! 🧪
Apropos of the obvious, which tooth type are the #ColossalBio #DeExtinct frankenstmammoths going to have?
Mastodon tooth, North Sulphur River, NE Texas. At this locality Pleistocene alluvium overlays Late Cretaceous marine sediments, making for a double-whammy fossil collecting opportunity.
#fossilfriday #mastodon #tooth #pleistocene #fossilcollecting
#fossilfriday #mastodon #tooth #pleistocene #fossilcollecting
April 20, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Apropos of the obvious, which tooth type are the #ColossalBio #DeExtinct frankenstmammoths going to have?
“someone” has filed yet another DMCA copyright takedown against me over on X, 2 today (so far), fortunately I was able to deëxtinct my account! 🦤 🦣 🧫 🧪
It has been 0 days since “someone” has filed a DMCA copyright takedown against me over on X, fortunately I was able to deëxtinct my account! 🦤 🦣 🧫 🧪
July 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“someone” has filed yet another DMCA copyright takedown against me over on X, 2 today (so far), fortunately I was able to deëxtinct my account! 🦤 🦣 🧫 🧪
It has been 0 days since “someone” has filed a DMCA copyright takedown against me over on X, fortunately I was able to deëxtinct my account! 🦤 🦣 🧫 🧪
July 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
It has been 0 days since “someone” has filed a DMCA copyright takedown against me over on X, fortunately I was able to deëxtinct my account! 🦤 🦣 🧫 🧪
The company can’t get basic skeletal anatomy correct but sure let’s trust them to “deextinct” species 🧪
April 8, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The company can’t get basic skeletal anatomy correct but sure let’s trust them to “deextinct” species 🧪
#ColossalBio keeps on keeping on with their #DeExtinction #DisInformation campaign. Their GMOs aren't #DeExtinct species; they're just making designer transgenic animals. 🦣 🦤🐺 🧟 🧪
March 5, 2026 at 3:22 PM
#ColossalBio keeps on keeping on with their #DeExtinction #DisInformation campaign. Their GMOs aren't #DeExtinct species; they're just making designer transgenic animals. 🦣 🦤🐺 🧟 🧪
And now #ColossalBioSci admit they did not deëxtinct dire wolves, the whole thing was PR #DisInformation campaign. Extinction is (mostly) forever…
www.newscientist.com/article/2481...
www.newscientist.com/article/2481...
Colossal scientist now admits they haven’t really made dire wolves
Despite a huge media fanfare in which Colossal Biosciences claimed to have resurrected the extinct dire wolf, the company's chief scientist now concedes that the animals are merely modified grey wolve...
www.newscientist.com
May 23, 2025 at 11:06 AM
And now #ColossalBioSci admit they did not deëxtinct dire wolves, the whole thing was PR #DisInformation campaign. Extinction is (mostly) forever…
www.newscientist.com/article/2481...
www.newscientist.com/article/2481...
If you're going to deextinct anything and I'm not saying you should, I the up just think it should be a dodo or thylacine or passenger pigeon.
April 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
If you're going to deextinct anything and I'm not saying you should, I the up just think it should be a dodo or thylacine or passenger pigeon.
I'm going to deëxtinct the t-rex (make 12 single nucleotide perturbations to a chicken)
July 14, 2026 at 8:53 PM
I'm going to deëxtinct the t-rex (make 12 single nucleotide perturbations to a chicken)
Never mind dire wolves deextinct Dire Straits.
a cartoon drawing of a man walking on the moon is displayed on a television screen
ALT: a cartoon drawing of a man walking on the moon is displayed on a television screen
media.tenor.com
April 12, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Never mind dire wolves deextinct Dire Straits.
Oh my, whoever could have predicted this‽ #ColossalBio is backtracking on it's time frame to #DeExtinct the mammoth –– I'm shocked! Shocked I say! (The article also discusses our TP53 and LIF6 work, and #PetosParadox but doesn't mention either of us.) 🤷 🦣 😂
time.com/article/2026...
time.com/article/2026...
Miss J Alexander's Shocked Drama Reaction
ALT: Miss J Alexander's Shocked Drama Reaction
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August 28, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Oh my, whoever could have predicted this‽ #ColossalBio is backtracking on it's time frame to #DeExtinct the mammoth –– I'm shocked! Shocked I say! (The article also discusses our TP53 and LIF6 work, and #PetosParadox but doesn't mention either of us.) 🤷 🦣 😂
time.com/article/2026...
time.com/article/2026...
If I understand my WWII history we're about a year away from the MAGAs starting a project to deextinct Abraham Lincoln
Bloody gloves belonging to Abraham Lincoln. When the President was shot by John Wilkes Booth, some of the blood ran down his sleeve and pooled in the pocket which contained the gloves.
Photo: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.
Photo: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.
April 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
If I understand my WWII history we're about a year away from the MAGAs starting a project to deextinct Abraham Lincoln
There also is no discussion of how extinction is not simply the end of a genetic lineage, but also the loss of an ecological niche. You can't meaningfully deextinct dire wolves without also deextincting the mammalian megafauna on which they fed. Conflating genes with ecology is a big mistake.
April 8, 2025 at 12:06 PM
There also is no discussion of how extinction is not simply the end of a genetic lineage, but also the loss of an ecological niche. You can't meaningfully deextinct dire wolves without also deextincting the mammalian megafauna on which they fed. Conflating genes with ecology is a big mistake.
There's also the real possibility of human-deextinct animal conflict with the release of genetically modified animals, especially into heavily modified ecosystems & those that no longer exist, as @sabercatwoman.bsky.social points out. 3/6
March 16, 2026 at 2:08 AM
There's also the real possibility of human-deextinct animal conflict with the release of genetically modified animals, especially into heavily modified ecosystems & those that no longer exist, as @sabercatwoman.bsky.social points out. 3/6
This will be a disaster. These scammers didn’t deextinct the dire wolf - what they produced were wolves that look like dire wolfs, not actual dire wolfs. Because the closest living mammal to the dire wolf is the coyote, not the grey wolf. This will be similar.
Just when you think Americans can't do anything more stupid
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
We will ‘de-extinct’ moa within next decade, says US bioscience company
The ambitious plan has the backing of Sir Peter Jackson, Ngāi Tahu, and Canterbury Museum and the company that brought back the dire wolf.
www.stuff.co.nz
July 10, 2025 at 6:44 AM
This will be a disaster. These scammers didn’t deextinct the dire wolf - what they produced were wolves that look like dire wolfs, not actual dire wolfs. Because the closest living mammal to the dire wolf is the coyote, not the grey wolf. This will be similar.
But the real question is, can it be used by Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences to #DeExtinct a Woolly Mammoth – aka making a shaggy Asian elephant‽ 🧪 🦣 🌱🐋 #ExtinctionIsForever
(Full disclosure: they shared an immortalized Asian Elephant fibroblast cell line with us, which we appreciate.)
(Full disclosure: they shared an immortalized Asian Elephant fibroblast cell line with us, which we appreciate.)
December 24, 2024 at 12:41 PM
But the real question is, can it be used by Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences to #DeExtinct a Woolly Mammoth – aka making a shaggy Asian elephant‽ 🧪 🦣 🌱🐋 #ExtinctionIsForever
(Full disclosure: they shared an immortalized Asian Elephant fibroblast cell line with us, which we appreciate.)
(Full disclosure: they shared an immortalized Asian Elephant fibroblast cell line with us, which we appreciate.)
I've updated my post with some footnotes about misleading claims of technological innovation, who was really the first to deëxtinct a species, and some thoughts about what it means to be a species, especially for red wolves and coyotes...
I've written a Substack about the #ColossalBioSci #DeExtinction #DisInformation campaign; it's focused on polluting the information landscape, rather than the underlying science (except for species concepts, I talk about them)
open.substack.com/pub/devoevom...
open.substack.com/pub/devoevom...
The Extinction of Truth
Or, a Colossal Pile of Bullshit
open.substack.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I've updated my post with some footnotes about misleading claims of technological innovation, who was really the first to deëxtinct a species, and some thoughts about what it means to be a species, especially for red wolves and coyotes...
like all they did was edit grey wolf dna to make them more LIKE dire wolves and if it was possible to deextinct a species like that, ethical preservationist dog breeders already would’ve done it (like they did with Dalmatian backcrossing) lmao
May 19, 2026 at 5:44 PM
like all they did was edit grey wolf dna to make them more LIKE dire wolves and if it was possible to deextinct a species like that, ethical preservationist dog breeders already would’ve done it (like they did with Dalmatian backcrossing) lmao
Don't deextinct if you can't handle it.
January 15, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Don't deextinct if you can't handle it.
What annoys me about the "dire wolf thing" is why "deextinct" something without an ecological niche left behind. It died out 13000 years ago. Hell if you want to play in the realm of god, why arent we creating a seed vault of complete genetic code for endangered/nearly extinct animals.
April 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
What annoys me about the "dire wolf thing" is why "deextinct" something without an ecological niche left behind. It died out 13000 years ago. Hell if you want to play in the realm of god, why arent we creating a seed vault of complete genetic code for endangered/nearly extinct animals.
Is Colossal going to deextinct them too‽
March 8, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Is Colossal going to deextinct them too‽