Colossal Biosciences

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.

Colossal Biosciences publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Content API (WordPress REST wp/v2). Tagged areas include Company, Biotechnology, Genomics, Life Sciences, and Conservation.

Colossal Biosciences’ developer surface includes authentication, engineering blog, signup flow, and 19 more developer resources.

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35.1/100 thin Agent 39/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-03 · rubric v0.9

2 APIs 1 MCP Servers

CompanyBiotechnologyGenomicsLife SciencesConservationDe-ExtinctionSynthetic BiologyResearchContent

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scored 2026-08-03 · rubric v0.9

Composite quality — 35.1/100 · thin

Contract Quality 14.2 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20

Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 1.5 / 12

Discoverability 8.7 / 10

Agent readiness — 39/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Colossal Biosciences Content API (WordPress REST wp/v2)

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 an...

Colossal Biosciences MCP Server (WordPress MCP Adapter)

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-serve...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

colossal-biosciences-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Colossal Biosciences Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Colossal Biosciences Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Colossal Biosciences Agentic Access

67 operations · 44 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conventions

Conformance

Conformance

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Website

About

Blog

BlogRSS

Careers

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Technology

Research

Podcast

Foundation

Source (apis.yml)

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: '2026-08-02'
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
- 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
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

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