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

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.

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

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

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

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

Sir Peter Jackson is best known for bringing Middle-earth to life on the big screen, but now he’s helping bring back from the giant moa from extinction. In a groundbreaking partnership, the Lord of th ...

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

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

A groundbreaking genetic engineering project, backed by movie director Sir Peter Jackson and iwi Ngāi Tahu, is aiming to ...

A groundbreaking genetic engineering project, backed by movie director Sir Peter Jackson and iwi Ngāi Tahu, is aiming to ...

Filmmaker Peter Jackson's fascination with a large extinct New Zealand bird has led to an unusual partnership with a biotech ...