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.

Sir Peter Jackson is best known for bringing Middle-earth to life on the big screen, but now he’s helping bring back from the giant moa from extinction. In a groundbreaking partnership, the Lord of th ...

Filmmaker Peter Jackson owns one of the largest private collections of bones of an extinct New Zealand bird called the moa.

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

Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences is at it again, this time attempting to resurrect a giant that once lived alongside humans.

The New Zealand filmmaker has not made a feature film since 2014’s The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies. Since then, he ...

In just the last several months, de-extinction — bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble ...

Lord of the Rings filmmaker Sir Peter Jackson, who is funding the ‘de-extinction’ project, says the successful reintroduction ...

The company that made headlines for breathing new life into the wooly mammoth and dire wolf lines sets its sights on a new target.

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 ...