Image 3 of 3 Giant moa were among the largest birds to ever live ... which will have application both for moa de-extinction and bird conservation work," Shapiro said in an email.

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

A company that claims to have resurrected the dire wolf has unveiled plans to bring back the moa, a long-extinct bird that ...

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

After a controversial project claiming to have resurrected the dire wolf, Colossal Biosciences has now announced plans to ...

The giant skeletal remains of a rare bird stored at Leeds Museum have been given a clean bill of health by curators. The ...

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.

The giant moa has been extinct for 900 years, but Maori researchers working Colossal Biosciences and filmmaker Peter Jackson ...

We got to thinking about Peter Jackson’s massive collection of big-ass bird bones courtesy of a very weird interview he gave ...

Lord of the Rings filmmaker Sir Peter Jackson, who is funding the ‘de-extinction’ project, says the successful reintroduction of the giant mao bird would be a dream ...

In a “Jurassic Park”-esque fashion, “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson and the Texas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences are partnering to “de-extinct” the centuries-extinct New Zealand ...

And this time the company wants to bring back all nine species of the giant moa—a flightless bird native to New Zealand that died out as a result of overhunting some 600 years ago.