Citing an article in Fortune magazine Tim Hakki reports decrypto.co that "the Winklevoss twins and Tim Draper hope to make Jurassic Park (well, Pleistocene Park) a reality—and decarbonize the atmosphere in the process.
In one of the stranger pieces of news from the crypto world recently, Bitcoin billionaires the Winklevoss twins and Tim Draper have pitched in to a $15 million funding round for a startup aiming to revive the extinct woolly mammoth.
According to Fortune, the trio helped fund "de-extinction" startup Colossal, which hopes to restore the ecosystems where woolly mammoths once grazed in an effort to help decarbonize the atmosphere.
Harvard genetics professor George Church, together with entrepreneur Ben Lamm, debuted Colossal yesterday with $15 million worth of investment pooled from several venture capital billionaires.
Colossal hopes to use gene-editing technology on the endangered Asian elephant to give it the same characteristics as the extinct woolly mammoth. Church, the project leader, hopes to grow the embryos inside artificial wombs, or the wombs of Asian or African elephants.
Cameron Winklevoss called the enterprise a “moonshot” and told Fortune that he hopes to see returns from future television deals, or even a Jurassic Park-style theme park for extinct animals.
Source credit and full story - https://decrypt.co/80898/bitcoin-billionaires-back-woolly-mammoth-revival-project-colossal
https://fortune.com/2021/09/13/bitcoin-billionaires-winklevoss-twins-woolly-mammoth/
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