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

A trailblazing genetic-engineering project, backed by movie director Sir Peter Jackson and iwi Ngāi Tahu, proposes to bring ...

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

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 ...

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

After a controversial project claiming to have resurrected the dire wolf, Colossal Biosciences has now announced plans to ...

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

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

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

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 ...