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

In a groundbreaking Indigenous-led initiative, the Ngāi Tahu Research Centre has partnered with Texas-based de-extinction ...

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 ...

The extinct Moa bird could be brought back in the fashion of direwolves by the descendants of the people who hunted them to extinction.

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

In a “Jurassic Park”-esque fashion, “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson and the Texas-based biotech company Colossal ...

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

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

Colossal Biosciences, which also has plans for the Tasmanian devil and the woolly mammoth, is now focusing on New Zealand's ...

In a move that sounds more like science fiction than groundbreaking conservation, the Ngāi Tahu Research Centre, the ...

LOTR’s Peter Jackson joins a Māori-led plan to resurrect the long-lost giant moa by combining ancient culture with bold ...