{"id":360,"date":"2021-10-14T17:10:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T17:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/?p=360"},"modified":"2023-05-21T14:39:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T14:39:20","slug":"ufo-hunter-harvard-geneticist-resurrect-mammoths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/ufo-hunter-harvard-geneticist-resurrect-mammoths\/","title":{"rendered":"UFO Hunter and Harvard Geneticist Announce $15 Million Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A famous Harvard geneticist and a startup founder most famous for planning to launch satellites to search for UFOs in Earth\u2019s atmosphere have announced a new venture to de-extinct woolly mammoths using advanced gene-editing technology.<\/p>\n<p>Investor and co-founder Ben Lamm announced the launch of Colossal, along with a $15 million dollar seed round, Monday morning. It\u2019s not the first science fiction-esque project Lamm has worked on. Lamm is also the founder of Hypergiant Industries, which, among other things, is trying to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/z3bqkj\/ufo-satellite-ai-hypergiant-industries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">launch satellites to search for UFOs on earth.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To Learn More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/n7bg8x\/ufo-hunter-and-harvard-geneticist-announce-dollar15-million-effort-to-resurrect-woolly-mammoths\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A famous Harvard geneticist and a startup founder most famous for planning to launch satellites to search for UFOs in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-wooly-mammoth-page"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}