A majestic bird interwoven with New Zealand's identity may soon be making a comeback. Certain individuals from the indigenous Māori group have collaborated with Oscar-winning New Zealand filmmaker ...

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

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 ...

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

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Earlier this year, a company called Colossal Biosciences brought into the world a trio of dire wolves, an ancient, large kind of wolf that died out thousands of ...

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

A species of huge, flightless bird that once inhabited New Zealand disappeared around 600 years ago, shortly after human ...

Along with Colossal Biosciences, the filmmaker is joining an indigenous-centered partnership to resurrect the 12-foot-tall ...

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

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