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New Zealand, Lord of the Rings and dire wolf

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‘Lord of the Rings’ director backs long shot de-extinction plan, starring New Zealand’s lost moa

Paul Scofield, a project adviser and senior curator of natural history at the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand, said he first met the “Lord of the Rings” director when he went to his house to help him identity which of the nine known species of moa the various bones represented.

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Lord of the Wings? ‘Lord of the Rings’ director backs plan to ‘de-extinct’ New Zealand bird

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Colossal plans to resurrect New Zealand’s giant flightless birds from extinction

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Colossal's plans to "de-extinct" the giant moa are still impossible

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

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First the dire wolf, now NZ's giant moa: Why real 'de-extinction' is unlikely to fly

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

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The company that brought dire wolves back has a new de-extinction target: A 12-foot bird that disappeared 600 years ago

Colossal Biosciences has announced that it is aiming to bring back one of the nine flightless birds wiped out after humans arrived in New Zealand.

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Scientists Are Planning a Jurassic World-Style Rebirth for the Extinct Giant Moa

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

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A Colossal Moa: One Of The Biggest Birds Ever To Walk The Earth Becomes 5th "De-Extinction" Species

Humans once lived among enormous, wingless birds in New Zealand, but within a few hundred years of our species arrival, they ...

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