So far, not a single extinct species has been brought back to life.

Nevertheless, the topic is a favorite of science fiction, and with the advancement of bio-technology, it is beginning to seriously excite scientists.

Colossal Biosciences intends to resurrect the thylacine and woolly mammoth.

Before that, however, the company will try to reclaim the Dodo bird.

The company has received $150 million in new funding to support its "de-extinction" activities, Gizmodo reports.

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Financial donors are quite curious.

Among them is the United States Innovative Technology Fund and In-Q-Tel.

The latter firm was funded directly by the CIA.

Scientists say they aim not only to resurrect the extinct bird, but also to introduce it back into the wild.

Mammoths became extinct about 4,000 years ago on Wrangel Island, off the northeast coast of Russia.

The dodo, a type of flightless bird native to the island of Mauritius, became extinct in 1681. The last known thylacine died in a zoo in Tasmania in 1936. Scientists have sequenced the genomes of all three species - the mammoth in 2015, the dodo in 2016 and the thylacine in 2018.

Some scientists argue that the genetically modified animals produced by Colossal would not be real mammoths, dodos or thylacines.

However, over time, they would become indistinguishable from their vanished prototypes, dir.bg reported.

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