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

Lords of the Rings” Oscar winner Peter Jackson has not directed a feature film in more than a decade. His last feature, “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” was released in 2014. Since then, ...

A colossal flightless bird that vanished from New Zealand 600 years ago could soon take wing again, thanks to a Texas-based ...

The South Island giant moa, a massive, flightless bird that disappeared from New Zealand around 600 years ago due to ...

Colossal Biosciences, a genetic engineering startup based in Dallas, wants to revive the moa, a flightless bird species that ...

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

The genetics company is teaming up with "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson to resurrect an animal resembling the ...

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

A giant, flightless bird that roamed New Zealand before going extinct about 600 years ago is the next species on a ...

Lord of the Rings' filmmaker Peter Jackson is backing a project to resurrect New Zealand's extinct giant moa. But if it doesn't look like Jurassic Park, then what does 'de-extinction' actually mean?

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