Colossal Biosciences has announced its next de-extinction project: the return of the giant moa, a flightless bird native to New Zealand that vanished nearly 600 years ago. The effort, backed by ...

Native grass species serve as vital germplasm resources and have evolved impressive traits like drought, cold, disease, and ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Filmmaker Peter Jackson has taken up a new role. The Lord of the Rings director is on a mission to bring back the Moa, a bird native to New Zealand which went extinct 600 years ago. The largest ...

Lord of the Rings Director Peter Jackson is working to bring back a species of bird that’s been extinct for 600 years.

Unlike other large flightless birds which still retain vestigial wings, moa were completely wingless. They took about 10 ...

LOTR’s Peter Jackson joins a Māori-led plan to resurrect the long-lost giant moa by combining ancient culture with bold ...