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.

Standing more than three metres (12ft) high, the South Island giant moa is regarded as the tallest bird to have ever walked the face of Earth.

Many Native Americans are marking ceremonies like graduations with bald eagle feathers, a form of reverence for the bird they ...

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

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

Colossal Biosciences, a genetic engineering startup based in Dallas, wants to revive the moa, a flightless bird species that ...

We got to thinking about Peter Jackson’s massive collection of big-ass bird bones courtesy of a very weird interview he gave ...

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.

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 ...

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