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A company is looking to bring back blue Antelopes after they successfully recreated Dire Wolves despite them being extinct for over 12,500 years.
Back in April 2025, Colossal — a bioscience and genetic engineering company – revealed that they’d recreated three dire wolf pups, despite them having been extinct for over 12,500 years.
Geneticists at Colossal had managed to make the feat happen using the surviving DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth, alongside a 72,000-year-old skull, of healthy dire wolf pups. That led to a striking recreation of the animals, which boomed in popularity due to Game of Thrones, and they’ve since gone on to celebrate their first birthday.
Well, now the bioscience and genetic engineering company has eyed up bringing back another extinct animal – blue antelopes, otherwise known as the Bluebuck.
Colossal wants to bring back Bluebuck after 200 years
“By the end of the 18th century, the bluebuck had faded into legend. Last seen in the wild in 1799, this sleek, bluish-toned antelope native to South Africa became the first large African mammal to be driven to extinction by humans in recorded history,” Colossal said on April 30.
“The bluebuck was lost before science had a chance to truly understand it. Now, we have the tools not just to study the bluebuck’s story, but to rewrite it.”
They noted that there are seven “authenticated” bluebuck specimen remains in European museum collections, but “none are complete” and miss certain elements.
According to Colossal, they have “viable DNA” that can be “placed” within “the evolutionary context of other African antelopes,” to recreate the bluebuck. They also say they are making “incredible progress” with the program too.
It remains to be seen as to when they may make the bluebuck part of their de-extinction program, which also includes Woolly Mammoths, Thylacine, Dodos, and Moas.
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