The announcement that New Zealand's moa nunui (giant moa) is the next "de-extinction" target for Colossal Biosciences, in ...

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

In a groundbreaking Indigenous-led initiative, the Ngāi Tahu Research Centre has partnered with Texas-based de-extinction ...

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

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

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

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 ...

We spoke with Peter Jackson about his work with Colossal Biosciences and Māori leaders to help bring back New Zealand’s ...

Colossal Biosciences, which also has plans for the Tasmanian devil and the woolly mammoth, is now focusing on New Zealand's ...

In a move that sounds more like science fiction than groundbreaking conservation, the Ngāi Tahu Research Centre, the ...

The 12-foot bird roamed the country for 4,000 years until they became extinct about 600 years ago, mainly because of ...