Colossal has previously worked on species like the dire wolf. This time, the challenge is different. Birds lay eggs, which ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

The 'Lord of the Rings' director said this project "is just as exciting, if not more exciting, than any film I could make.” ...

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

A biotech company based in the United States, says it will attempt to bring back the South Island giant moa (Dinornis robustus), a towering flightless bird that went extinct in New Zealand around 600 ...

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

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

The South Island giant moa could be the next species that biotech company Colossal Biosciences "brings back" from extinction ...

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