aid: colossal-biosciences
name: Colossal Biosciences
description: 'Colossal Biosciences is a Dallas, Texas based de-extinction and species-preservation
  biotechnology company founded in 2021 by Ben Lamm and Harvard geneticist George Church.
  It applies ancient-DNA sequencing, comparative genomics, CRISPR multiplex genome editing,
  cloning and artificial-womb research to restoring extinct keystone species — the woolly
  mammoth, thylacine, dodo, moa, dire wolf and blue buck among them — and to conserving
  critically endangered living species. Colossal spun out the computational life-sciences
  platform Form Bio, runs the non-profit Colossal Foundation, and publishes its research
  code through the colossal-compsci GitHub organization. Colossal publishes no product or
  developer API; the machine-readable surface on colossal.com is the WordPress REST API
  (wp/v2) that serves the company newsroom, pages, media and site search as JSON, plus a
  WordPress MCP Adapter endpoint that is present but authentication-gated.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/colossal-biosciences/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment-pipeline
image: https://colossal.com/wp-content/uploads/Colossal_BrandingRegistered_Logo_Icon_RGB_Wht-1.png
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-02'
modified: '2026-08-04'
tags:
- Company
- Biotechnology
- Genomics
- Life Sciences
- Conservation
- De-Extinction
- Synthetic Biology
- Research
- Content
apis:
- aid: colossal-biosciences:content
  name: Colossal Biosciences Content API (WordPress REST wp/v2)
  description: 'The anonymously readable WordPress REST API that colossal.com serves at
    /wp-json/wp/v2 — newsroom posts, marketing pages, the media library, categories, tags,
    comments, users and a site-wide search endpoint, all as JSON with page/per_page
    pagination and X-WP-Total / X-WP-TotalPages headers. This is the CMS content API, not a
    Colossal product API; Colossal publishes no OpenAPI for it, so the definition in this
    repo was derived mechanically from the live route-discovery document at
    https://colossal.com/wp-json/.'
  humanURL: https://colossal.com/news/
  baseURL: https://colossal.com/wp-json/wp/v2
  tags:
  - Content
  - News
  - Search
  - Media
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/colossal-biosciences-content-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/colossal-biosciences-content-overlay.yaml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/colossal-biosciences-data-model.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/colossal-biosciences-problem-types.yml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/colossal-biosciences-examples.yml
- aid: colossal-biosciences:mcp
  name: Colossal Biosciences MCP Server (WordPress MCP Adapter)
  description: 'A Model Context Protocol server endpoint advertised in the colossal.com
    WordPress REST route index under the "mcp" namespace and served at
    /wp-json/mcp/mcp-adapter-default-server. The endpoint is live but authentication-gated:
    an anonymous JSON-RPC tools/list returns HTTP 401 rest_forbidden, as does the companion
    wp-abilities/v1 abilities registry, so the published tool set could not be enumerated.'
  humanURL: https://colossal.com/wp-json/mcp
  baseURL: https://colossal.com/wp-json/mcp/mcp-adapter-default-server
  tags:
  - MCP
  - Agents
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/colossal-biosciences-mcp.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/colossal-biosciences-tool-crosswalk.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-04'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 7
  pass: local-v1
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/colossal-biosciences-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/colossal-biosciences-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/colossal-biosciences-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://colossal.com/
- type: About
  url: https://colossal.com/company/
- type: Blog
  url: https://colossal.com/news/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://colossal.com/feed/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://colossal.com/newsletter/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://colossal.com/terms-of-use/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://colossal.com/privacy-policy/
- type: Careers
  url: https://colossal.com/careers/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/colossal-compsci
- type: Technology
  url: https://colossal.com/technology/
- type: Research
  url: https://colossal.com/labs/
- type: Podcast
  url: https://colossal.com/podcast/
- type: Foundation
  url: https://colossalfoundation.org/
- type: Packages
  url: packages/colossal-biosciences-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/colossal-biosciences-llms.txt
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/colossal-biosciences-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/colossal-biosciences-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/colossal-biosciences-lifecycle.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml