This is interesting because on one hand, there's nothing wrong with doing this research, and they might as well. On the other, I think we are putting too much emphasis on what has been.

Sure, we had these mammoth, and these fancy birds, and the dinosaurs. So? It's gone. Let's look at the future. let's figure out what we need now (EVs, Rockets, open Internet...etc).

I am just always surprised by how much emphasis we put on bringing things from the dead, instead of actively elevating the living.

This is the same company that claimed to bring back that extinct Dire Wolf species, but it was just regular wolves with GMO hair or some really simple modification that was nothing what they claimed. Based on what they've said previously, I'd be EXTREMELY skeptical about this.

"... Colossal’s chief scientist Beth Shapiro appears to agree. “It’s not possible to bring something back that is identical to a species that used to be alive." [1]

I'll believe it when I can walk into Jack in the Box and get a Dodo bird sandwich with ranch.

[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/2481409-colossal-scient...