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

The South Island giant moa could be the next species that biotech company Colossal Biosciences "brings back" from extinction ...

Colossal has previously worked on species like the dire wolf. This time, the challenge is different. Birds lay eggs, which ...

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.

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

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

The world is currently experiencing its sixth mass extinction, with potentially thousands of species lost every year.

A de-extinction company plans to recreate the giant moa bird, but scientists question the ethics and scientific accuracy of ...

A groundbreaking genetic engineering project, backed by movie director Sir Peter Jackson and iwi Ngāi Tahu, is aiming to ...

Filmmaker Peter Jackson's fascination with a large extinct New Zealand bird has led to an unusual partnership with a biotech ...

A groundbreaking genetic engineering project, backed by movie director Sir Peter Jackson and iwi Ngāi Tahu, is aiming to ...

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