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

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

Texas genetics engineering company Colossal Biosciences is teaming with filmmaker Peter Jackson and New Zealand experts to ...

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

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

Colossal Biosciences, the startup that brought back the dire wolf, is now focusing on New Zealand's giant moa.

Filmmaker Peter Jackson owns one of the largest private collections of bones of an extinct New Zealand bird called the moa.

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

Filmmaker Peter Jackson has taken up a new role. The Lord of the Rings director is on a mission to bring back the Moa, a bird native to New Zealand which went extinct 600 years ago. The largest ...

Filmmaker Peter Jackson's fascination with a large extinct New Zealand bird has led to an unusual partnership with a biotech company known for its grand and controversial plans to bring ...

Every year in winter, the New Zealand Garden Bird Survey takes place across the country. It is Aotearoa’s longest-running ...

The 12-foot bird roamed the country for 4,000 years until they became extinct about 600 years ago, mainly because of ...