Colossal Labs billionaire founders Ben Lamm and Sophie Turner spoke about his company’s efforts to revive the long, sensitive, miserable wolves on a panel at SXSW’s first London post base.
The Wolves reentered public consciousness for the TV show “Game of Thrones,” where Turner was a major character. Even she realized that the miserable wolves thought were mythical creatures.
“Are you a fan of Game of Thrones? ” asked Turner.
“I was a fan of Game of Thrones,” Lamb said. “When ‘Game of Thrones’ came out, I didn’t think a while ago, “Oh, by the way, one day I’ll make a dragon or a miserable wolf.” ”
Lamm told the story of how he and his team at Colossal “bringing home” the tragic wolf species that had been extinct for over 10,000 years. He also provided some updates on what the company is working on next, including a bioacoustic project announced just a few weeks ago.
Lamb said his miserable wolves began to show at 3 weeks of age and began to respond to human songs and owl sounds. The first two Romulus and Remus are currently about six months old. Lamm and his team are exploring ways to use AI to help monitor wolves’ behavior, identifying emotion and patterns of “wolf linguistics.”
“What I’m obsessed about is that the miserable wolves have their own pitches and inflections,” Lamb told the crowd. “We’re going to release it later this year,” he said. We map different types of miserable Howls with reference to bioacoustic projects.
The wolves live in a 2,000 acre storage in a top-secret location. He called the park “very yellowstone.” There is a veterinary hospital, full-time caretaker and full-time security. The wolves are learning socialization tactics to help them in the wild. “They are beginning to lightly predate on the reserve,” he said. “They’re becoming more and more true wolves each day.”
He also said they were trying to officially introduce the two wolves to a woman, a woman named Boyce, about three months old. The public met Colossal Labs’ efforts to “excite” animals with charm and skepticism. Many of them focused on whether the miserable wolf was simply a genetically edited grey wolf.
However, investors seem to be very interested in where Corozal is heading towards its innovation. TechCrunch reported in March that the company was trying to “revive” Tasmanian tigers and dodos, as well as two other extinct animals. This year, the company announced a $200 million Series C at a $10.2 billion valuation, and in March it unveiled genetically modified mice to grow mammoth-like fur. (Lamm said it took me an impressive month.)
Turner asked Lam the question he got as often as he deserves. “How about dinosaurs?” she asked. “Can you take it home?”
His company is not focusing on it at this time because retrieving dinosaurs is so complicated, Lamb explained. However, later in the conversation, he said there may be a new update coming from Colossal soon.
“I think there might be some interesting dodo updates this summer,” he said.
Update: This story has been updated to clarify skepticism about Colossal’s Dire Wolf program. According to Colossal Labs, the links included in this report are inaccurate. “They misquoted Beth Shapiro, so we have a problem with them,” spokesman Emily Mail wrote in an email. “She never said they’re not a miserable wolf. We’ve been working to fix it.” TechCrunch removes the link if the media outlet withdraws the story.