Lord of the Rings' director Peter Jackson and his partner Fran Walsh invested $15 million in Colossal Biosciences to bring ...

The announcement that New Zealand's moa nunui (giant moa) is the next "de-extinction" target for Colossal Biosciences, in ...

In a groundbreaking Indigenous-led initiative, the Ngāi Tahu Research Centre has partnered with Texas-based de-extinction ...

Lord of the Rings filmmaker Sir Peter Jackson, who is funding the ‘de-extinction’ project, says the successful reintroduction ...

A species of huge, flightless bird that once inhabited New Zealand disappeared around 600 years ago, shortly after human ...

Paul Scofield, a project adviser and senior curator of natural history at the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand, ...

The New Zealand filmmaker has not made a feature film since 2014’s The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies. Since then, he ...

After the Dire Wolf, Texas Company Is Now Bringing Back the Moa, a Giant Flightless Bird From Extinction A majestic bird interwoven with New Zealand's identity may soon be making a comeback. Certain ...

Unlike other large flightless birds which still retain vestigial wings, moa were completely wingless. They took about 10 ...

In an ambitious attempt, Jackson is backing a $15 million project to bring back the ’12-foot flightless bird’ known as the ...

Colossal Biosciences, which also has plans for the Tasmanian devil and the woolly mammoth, is now focusing on New Zealand's ...

In a move that sounds more like science fiction than groundbreaking conservation, the Ngāi Tahu Research Centre, the ...