Two hundred years is a long time. It’s older than basketball, older than the light bulb — and roughly how long it’s been since anyone has seen a bluebuck alive. Now, a team of scientists wants to change that. Colossal Biosciences , the Dallas-based biotech company that made headlines last year after engineering three dire wolf pups using 13,000-year-old DNA, announced its latest de-extinction project this week: the bluebuck, a silvery blue-gray antelope that once roamed the grasslands of South Africa. The species was driven to extinction around 1800, making it the first large African mammal to disappear in modern history. "When we are successful, it will mean we have brought back a species that has not walked this earth for hundreds of years," Colossal reproductive biology scientist Darya Tourzani said in a YouTube video shared on Monday, April 27.…