How de-extincting dire wolves and woolly mammoths may extend human life
- ID
- 34021
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 10 Oct 2026, 10:00 PM
- Fetched
- 10 Oct 2026, 10:52 PM
- Provider
- CNBC Technology
- Category
- technology
- Original URL
- https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/10/de-extincting-dire-wolves-woolly-mammoths-help-humans.html
- Source URL
- https://www.cnbc.com/id/19854910/device/rss/rss.html
Summary
- Score
- 2.0
- Created
- 10 Oct 2026, 10:53 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- founders
What happened
Colossal Biosciences has created three genetically engineered dire wolf pups and is working toward reviving the woolly mammoth, with CEO and co-founder Ben Lamm speaking about the effort at the CNBC AI Forum. Lamm addressed Jurassic Park comparisons, joking that the films were entertainment and that "I constantly have to remind people on X that, you know, they were movies," while noting Colossal frames its work around conservation and human-benefit models. The article also states that bringing back dinosaurs is impossible because viable dinosaur DNA is no longer available, and the excerpt cuts off before explaining the claimed human-life-extension link.
Why it matters
There is almost nothing actionable here for a working builder: no tooling, model, API, price, release date, or measurement is disclosed, and the human-life-extension claim in the headline is not supported by the text we have. The only concrete facts are three engineered dire wolf pups and that dinosaur DNA is unavailable. Treat this as a biotech narrative piece, not a technical or product update, and do not plan any work around it.
Discussion angle
Is the "AI + de-extinction" framing mainly a fundraising and PR narrative? Lamm's own line about reminding people on X that Jurassic Park was a movie suggests the company spends real effort managing that perception — worth asking whether your own pitch leans on a sci-fi analogy that you then have to walk back.