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 ...

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

Lord of the Rings” filmmaker Peter Jackson is backing a project to resurrect New Zealand's extinct giant moa. But if it doesn ...

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

The 'Lord of the Rings' director said this project "is just as exciting, if not more exciting, than any film I could make.” ...

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 ...

A biotech company based in the United States, says it will attempt to bring back the South Island giant moa (Dinornis robustus), a towering flightless bird that went extinct in New Zealand around 600 ...

The world is currently experiencing its sixth mass extinction, with potentially thousands of species lost every year.

The genetics company is teaming up with "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson to resurrect an animal resembling the ...