In an ambitious attempt, Jackson is backing a $15 million project to bring back the ’12-foot flightless bird’ known as the ...

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

Texas genetics engineering company Colossal Biosciences is teaming with filmmaker Peter Jackson and New Zealand experts to ...

Along with Colossal Biosciences, the filmmaker is joining an indigenous-centered partnership to resurrect the 12-foot-tall ...

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

The announcement was made during Mr. Potaka’s visit to the Isaac Conservation and Wildlife Trust near Christchurch, a ...

A fossil discovery of an ancient relative of the Australian magpie which lived in New Zealand some 19 million years ago challenges the understanding of ‘native’ species.

A landmark study just published in the New Zealand Journal of Ecology calls for a wholesale rethink of Aotearoa New Zealand's ...

The noble false widow spider (Steatoda nobilis), already considered one of the world’s most invasive arachnids, has ...

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