A Texas-based company with backing from Lord of the Rings filmmaker Peter Jackson is trying to bring a giant bird back from ...

We've seen a US company bring the wolf species back from extinction after more than 10,000 years, and now the next animal on a "de-extinction" journey is New Zealand’s moa nunui (giant moa). The team ...

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.

It’s been 11 years since Oscar-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson completed his “Hobbit” trilogy. He has not directed a ...

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 ...

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

A Texas-based company with backing from Lord of the Rings film-maker Sir Peter Jackson is trying to bring a giant bird back from extinction. Colossal Biosciences has announced an effort to genetically ...