Born in New Zealand to an Australian bikini model mother and a New Zealand singer father of Māori descent, Bennett moved to ...

Sure, helping to destroy the One Ring is fine… but what director Peter Jackson really wants to do is something much nobler than saving Middle Earth from the clutches of Sauron. Earlier this week, the ...

Oscar-winning filmmaker behind The Lord of the Rings, is joining forces with Colossal Biosciences, a leading genetic ...

You know him as the mastermind behind the epic films about hobbits and orcs, but now Peter Jackson is taking on a project ...

A Texas-based company with backing from Lord of the Rings filmmaker Peter Jackson is trying to bring a giant bird back from extinction. Colossal Biosciences has announced an effort to genetically ...

We've seen a US company bring the wolf species back from extinction after more than 10,000 years, and now the next animal on ...

Colossal aims to decode the giant moa’s DNA to revive it by genetically modifying its closest living relatives - emus and tinamous - using ancient DNA integration.

Peter Jackson's 1994 drama starring Kate Winsley and Melanie Lynskey is tough to find today, but it's absolutely worth a ...

Sir Peter Jackson is best known for bringing Middle-earth to life on the big screen, but now he’s helping bring back from the giant moa from extinction. In a groundbreaking partnership, the Lord of th ...

Standing more than three metres (12ft) high, the South Island giant moa is regarded as the tallest bird to have ever walked the face of Earth.

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

Peter Jackson wants to play God, and revive extinct creatures. Didn't this have terrible consequences in a movie?