section_path: Science and development/Future projects
section_name: Future projects
paragraph_text: Future projects
  
  Outside of their first five projects, Colossal Biosciences has stated that they have a "long list" of species that they want to revive and reintroduce to appropriate ecosystems. Such species include Castoroides, Arctodus, and Steller's sea cow. Ben Lamm has stated that he and his company want to revive Steller's sea cow once they have developed an artificial womb, as there are no adequate living relatives of the extinct sea cow to act a surrogate species. Colossal has also done genetic research for the following species; Irish elk, great auk, bluebuck, ground sloths, moas, saber-tooth cats, long-horned bison, Columbian mammoth, cave hyena, mastodons, American cheetahs, tooth-billed pigeons, and woolly rhinoceros, with the intent to potentially revive them in the future. Colossal is the first company to apply CRISPR technology to species restoration efforts.