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

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 ...

Having not been behind the camera on a major Hollywood feature for 11 years, Sir Peter Jackson has insisted he is "certainly ...

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

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

Colossal Biosciences, the startup that brought back the dire wolf, is now focusing on New Zealand's giant moa.

The director explained that "every New Zealand schoolchild has a fascination with the moa," a flightless bird similar to an ...

Plus, Peter Jackson may bring an extinct bird back to life before he directs another movie, which sounds like an entirely ...