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BOSTON ( WBZ ) -- Tom Brady's dog is a clone of a "beloved" family pet that died, the seven-time Super Bowl champion revealed on Tuesday.

The former New England Patriots quarterback is an investor with Colossal, a Texas-based biotechnology company that is attempting to bring back extinct species like the woolly mammoth.

"A few years ago, I worked with Colossal and leveraged their non-invasive cloning technology through a simple blood draw of our family's elderly dog before she passed," Brady said in a statement. "In a few short months, Colossal gave my family a second chance with a clone of our beloved dog."

People magazine reports that his dog Junie is a clone of his late pit bull mix Lua that died in December 2023. Brady's ex-wife Gisele Bundche

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