Extinct antelope to be resurrected with Jurassic Park technology

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American scientists have announced plans to resurrect an extinct antelope species using Jurassic Park technology.Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences has revealed the bluebuck, which vanished more than two centuries ago, will become the sixth creature in its de-extinction programme.The company is already working to revive three other mammals: the woolly mammoth, the dire wolf and the thylacine, commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger.Two extinct birds, the dodo and the moa, complete the portfolio.The bluebuck project has been underway for two years, with several of the first steps already completed.With its distinct backward-curving black horns marked with rings, bluebucks once roamed the coastal grasslands of South Africa's southwestern Cape region.European settlers particularly prized the svelte animal for its distinctive silvery slate-blue hide, with the species standing at around four feet tall at the shoulder.

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The bluebuck was smaller than its close relatives, the roan and sable...

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