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The Karankawa Tribe of Texas named the first cloned "ghost wolf" pup Neka Kayda, meaning "Ghost Daughter," and recognized her as the tribe's totem animal—one of many milestones in the Foundation's inaugural Impact Report. [Photo: Courtesy of Colossal]
Dallas’ Colossal Foundation Joins IUCN in $4M ‘Race Against Time’ Effort to Prevent Extinction
by Sandra Engelland | Sep 17, 2026
The foundation and IUCN Species Survival Commission have launched a four-year partnership that will use Colossal Biosciences’ technology to improve tracking of endangered species, including overlooked fungi, plants, invertebrates, fishes and reptiles.
by Quincy Preston |
Apr 30, 2026
At a $10 billion valuation—and spinning out new ventures—Colossal names the bluebuck its sixth de-extinction target, extending its biotech platform into antelope conservation through a global BioVault effort.
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by Quincy Preston |
Dec 17, 2025
Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences’ nonprofit arm has doubled its funding to $100 million and released its first Impact Report as it puts technology to work from Yellowstone to the Texas Gulf Coast—and beyond.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 14, 2025
The funding will support groundbreaking research into artificial womb technologies with the goal of protecting endangered species and advancing wildlife conservation efforts, the foundation said.
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Earthx2024 Congress of Conferences To Feature 80-Plus Speakers and Sessions on Global Sustainability
by David Seeley | Feb 6, 2024
From April 22 to April 26, Dallas-based EarthX will be hosting Earthx2024, an "unprecedented" Congress of Conferences, at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas. The overarching goal: to catalyze "unprecedented collaboration" through debates, roundtables, summits, and open dialogue among leaders across the ideological spectrum
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by David Seeley |
Nov 27, 2023
“The dodo is the symbol of man-caused extinction,” Dallas-based Colossal Co-Founder and CEO Ben Lamm said last January. “It’s only fitting that Colossal works to reverse that.” The newly announced partnership with the MWF could help advance Colossal's efforts by restoring the dodo's natural habitat.
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by Lance Murray |
Nov 9, 2023
Save the Elephants will deploy a small fleet of drones equipped with high resolution and infrared cameras to capture elephant behavioral data, which will then be processed by Colossal’s machine learning core to develop algorithms that will label elephants and automatically identify individual and collective social behavior.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 25, 2023
OK, it may not be as big—or as fire-breathing—as the dragons that swooped over Westeros on "Game of Thrones." But Australia's Victorian Grassland Earless Dragon is every bit as magical for simply hanging in there, decades after many thought it was extinct. Now Texas-based Colossal Biosciences is partnering to help preserve it—and sequence its genome.
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