Colossal Foundation Executive Director Matt James (center) with Colossal's head of animal husbandry, Steve Metzler, and Wendy Kiso, Colossal's principal scientist for assisted reproduction. [Photo: Colossal}
The North Texas-based foundation aims to fight the "extinction crisis" with initiatives including Colossal Biovault—"the world's largest distributed biobanking initiative"—and an array of new efforts to both preserve and "de-extinct" wildlife.