By the literal wording this happened in 2003: the Pyrenean ibex, or bucardo, was cloned from frozen skin of the last female, and a kid was born alive and died of a lung defect within minutes, which is cloned and brought back to life for the length of a breath, and it remains the only true clone of an extinct species on record. If the resolver wants an animal that lives, the candidates before 2035 are all Colossal's, and none of them is cloning: a mammoth proxy (an edited Asian elephant) targeted for late 2028, a dodo proxy on a five-to-seven-year path from the 2025 pigeon germ-cell result, a thylacine proxy that its lead lab projects for the mid-2030s, and the dire wolves already born in 2024 and 2025, which are grey wolves carrying 20 edits in 14 genes. So 70% rests on two readings at once: that cloned is loose enough to cover edited proxies, which most resolvers accept, and that at least one of three programmes delivers a living animal within nine years, where the mammoth is the only one with a date inside the window.

Resolves yes

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/science/colossal-dire-wolf-deextinction.html

@SimoneRomeo I'm not sure this should count? it wasn't cloned, a few genes of the extinct animal were sliced into a wolf or something? I could be getting that wrong but seems like it's largely a cosmetic thing? 20 edits across 14 genes is what time says iirc

Would an extinct subspecies of a living species qualify? ( pyrenean ibex, Sicilian wolf, quagga etc)

@JoshuaBartlett yeah it's already happened with the ibex, question is will it happen again lol?

Arent we already working on bringing mammoths back to life?