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

Hollywood Peter Jackson’s wild new project isn’t science fiction: This is the filmmaker’s real-life resurrection project The legendary Lord of the Rings director is embarking on a new work ...

Colossal Biosciences has announced a partnership to resurrect giant flightless birds called moa. But the company's recent dire wolf project was controversial, and moa are an even more ambitious target ...

Colossal Biosciences has announced a partnership to resurrect giant flightless birds called moa. But the company's recent dire wolf project was controversial, and moa are an even more ambitious ...

Here's what you need to know about the Peter Jackson-backed project to 'de-extinct' Aotearoa's long-dead giant bird.

Filmmaker Peter Jackson owns one of the largest private collections of bones of an extinct New Zealand bird called the moa. His fascination with the flightless ostrich-like bird has led to an unusual ...

Scientists try to bring 12-foot tall giant bird back from 600-year extinction Lord of the Rings filmmaker Sir Peter Jackson, who is funding the ‘de-extinction’ project, says the successful ...

Those DNA sequences will be compared to genomes of living bird species, including the ground-dwelling tinamou and emu, “to figure out what it is that made the moa unique compared to other birds,” she ...

The announcement that New Zealand's moa nunui (giant moa) is the next "de-extinction" target has caused widespread alarm among scientists.