As PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie roars across the big screen — treating kids to a new adventure where the pups save an entire island of dinosaurs from extinction — Paramount, Spin Master and Colossal Biosciences, the world’s first de-extinction company, have created their own special team to inspire children to become the next generation of animal protectors.
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Created by filmmaker Michael Dougherty (Godzilla: King of the Monsters) and voiced by Carter Young (the voice of Marshall in the movie), the team-up is introduced in a video released to YouTube and Instagram today.
In the video, kids are told that real animals don’t have the PAW Patrol to protect them and that the best time to save a species is while it is still here. “The next generation of protectors, that’s us. Together, we can become a real-life PAW Patrol for our planet.”
PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie x Colossal: A Rescue Team for Our Planet
Kids are also told how conservationists and scientists today are working to address some of the dangers real-life animals face — “sometimes stopping disease, sometimes listening closely, and sometimes it means helping animals return home.” As the video says, “different teams, different tools, same mission … protect the animals and the places they call home.”
In PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie, after their ship gets caught in a mysterious storm, the PAW Patrol crash lands on an uncharted tropical island filled with dinosaurs. They meet Rex, a pup who has been stranded on the island for years and has become an expert in all things dino-related. When the PAW Patrol’s archrival, Mayor Humdinger, begins recklessly mining in hopes of exploiting the island for its natural resources, he inadvertently causes a huge, dormant volcano to erupt. The pups are thrown into a series of high-stakes, dino-sized rescues bigger than anything they’ve done before, as they must stop Humdinger before everything on the island goes extinct.
The collaboration ties into Colossal Biosciences’ modern approach to conquering the biodiversity crisis facing our planet. While traditional conservation is important and should continue, the company asserts that new technologies combined with bold new thinkers are needed to shape the future of conservation, through de-extinction initiatives and other “moonshot” ideas.
Colossal is currently working with indigenous tribes and other partners on more than 25 AI & biotechnology-enabled conservation projects including the Northern White & Sumatran Rhino, Red Wolf recovery, Elephant Health and Amphibian Protection. Real-world progress from Colossal’s de-extinction work includes:
- Restoring the Red Wolf: Colossal used the same science from de-extincting the dire wolves, to clone and birth the world’s first “ghost” red wolves — the most endangered species of wolf, with only 14 left in the wild.
- Ending the Elephant EEHV Crisis: In its effort to bring back the woolly mammoth, Colossal’s research on the endangered Asian elephant discovered a potential cure for the EEHV virus that continues to be responsible for most juvenile deaths in human care. In partnership with the University of Baylor, Colossal accelerated the development of the world’s first mRNA vaccine targeting the virus responsible for most juvenile elephant deaths in human care. A vaccine for the virus is being tested.
- Decoding the Secret Language of Wolves: Using AI-enabled bioacoustic sensors to decode wolf howls and develop next-generation wildlife monitoring systems in Yellowstone National Park.
- Species Reintroduction Fund: Accelerating global rewilding by investing in the recovery and reintroduction of culturally and ecologically significant species.
- Saving Amphibians from Chytrid Fungus: Combating the world’s deadliest wildlife disease by engineering disease-resistant frogs capable of surviving in chytrid-positive environments.
- Engineering Cane Toad-Resistant Quolls: Pioneering genetic approaches to help save one of Australia’s most threatened marsupials from an invasive toxic species.
- Acquiring ViaGen: Expanding conservation’s most powerful genetic rescue platform by integrating the world’s leading animal cloning and biobanking company into long-term species recovery strategy.
- Colossal BioVault: Colossal recently announced the first-of-kind BioVault for species conservation within the UAE through a partnership with the Museum of the Future in Dubai. The announcement on the Biovalut is below as Colossal aims to stop any future extinctions.
Learn more about Colossal Biosciences’ work at colossal.com.
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