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Ben Lamm, the billionaire founder of Colossal Labs, discussed his company’s efforts in reviving the long-extinct dire wolf during a panel at SXSW’s first London outpost. Colossal Labs has created a bio-acoustic project to map out different types of dire wolf howls, which they plan to release later this year. The wolves, Romulus and Remus, are being monitored using AI to identify patterns in their behavior and emotions. These wolves are housed in a 2,000-acre preservation where they are learning socialization tactics and engaging in light predation. Colossal Labs is also working on reviving other extinct animals, such as the Tasmanian tiger and the dodo, and recently secured a $200 million Series C funding round at a $10.2 billion valuation. While the company is not currently focusing on dinosaurs, an update on their dodo project is expected this summer.