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

Filmmaker Peter Jackson's fascination with a large extinct New Zealand bird has led to an unusual partnership with a biotech ...

A giant, flightless bird that roamed New Zealand before going extinct about 600 years ago is the next species on a ...

“Some of those iconic species that feature in our tribal mythology, our storytelling, are very near and dear to us,” says ...

The extinct Moa bird could be brought back in the fashion of direwolves by the descendants of the people who hunted them to extinction.

A de-extinction company plans to recreate the giant moa bird, but scientists question the ethics and scientific accuracy of ...

To restore the moa, Colossal Biosciences announced Tuesday it would collaborate with New Zealand’s Ngāi Tahu Research Centre, an institution based at the University of Canterbury in ...

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

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

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