Long-extinct woolly mammoth will be brought back — within just 4 years, entrepreneur claims

This could get hairy. A high-tech company is confident that extinct beasts as far back as the ice age — like the woolly mammoth — can be resurrected by 2028, all thanks to a bankroll by Hollywood A-listers like Paris Hilton and Chris Hemsworth. Start-up Colossal Biosciences, which bills itself as “the world’s first de-extinction company,” is developing a way to revive “core” genes from longtime extinct animals including the mammoth, the dodo and the Tasmanian tiger, The Independent reported. The Texas-based business has raised upward of $235 million from...