Newest species scientists want to ‘de-extinct’ is an African antelope

Image: The bluebuck antelope (Hippotragus leucophaeus). Image credit: Colossal Biosciences. Article by Mike Snider. USA Today – April 30, 2026.

Colossal Biosciences, the company that produced a trio of modern-day dire wolves, is expanding to a half-dozen species that it wants to bring back. The latest extinct animal the so-called “de-extinction company” hopes to bring back is an African antelope known as a bluebuck. Native to southern Africa, the bluebuck had existed for at least 400,000 years before being driven to extinction about the year 1800, researchers found. […]

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Video: Colossal Announces the De-Extinction of the Bluebuck Antelope – Colossal Biosciences