Peter Jackson attends 'The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim' world premiere at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on Dec. 3, 2024; Engraving depicting a giant moa, an extinct genus of birds ...

WASHINGTON — Filmmaker Peter Jackson owns one of the largest private collections of bones of an extinct New Zealand bird called the moa. His fascination with the flightless ostrich-like bird has led ...

The company attempting to bring back the woolly mammoth has now set its sights on a new extinct species. Colossal Biosciences has announced it will attempt to 'de-extinct' a group of birds called the ...

Along with Colossal Biosciences, the filmmaker is joining an indigenous-centered partnership to resurrect the 12-foot-tall moa, dead for centuries. By Degen Pener Deputy Editor Colossal Biosciences — ...

Colossal Biosciences today announced their plans to bring back the tallest bird that ever lived, which has been extinct for nearly 600 years. The giant moa — a husky, wingless bird that could stand ...

A species of huge, flightless bird that once inhabited New Zealand disappeared around 600 years ago, shortly after human settlers first arrived on the country’s two main islands. Now, a Texas-based ...

Colossal Biosciences, Director Peter Jackson, Laker’s Owner Mark Walter and Texas Serial Entrepreneur Ben Lamm are involved in the epic Moa Comeback. Forget concussions or ACL tears. How about coming ...

Colossal Biosciences has announced a partnership to resurrect giant flightless birds called moa. But the company's recent dire wolf project was controversial, and moa are an even more ambitious target ...