‘It won’t end like Jurassic Park!’ The man who wants to bring the mammoth and dodo back to life

Ben Lamm: ‘We work with the top ancient DNA researchers in the world.’ Photograph: John Davidson

Colossal Biosciences founder Ben Lamm is working to revive the woolly mammoth and the dodo – but he wants to make clear the ending will be different to that of Steven Spielberg’s gory dinosaur epic Jurassic Park.

“People have to remember that that was a movie, right?” the serial entrepreneur sighs, sitting in the Hard Rock Cafe on the fringes of the World Economic Forum in Davos – a little outpost of America in the swank Swiss resort.