Colossal Biosciences today announced their plans to bring back the tallest bird that ever lived, which has been extinct for nearly 600 years. The giant moa — a husky, wingless bird that could stand ...

A biotech company that claims to have brought dire wolves back from extinction has announced plans to resurrect giant extinct birds called moa. However, experts say that dire wolves were never truly ...

For the first time, ancient DNA from droppings left by New Zealand’s flightless moa identifies actual species of fungi the doomed birds ate. The snacks, including purple lumps of a trufflelike fungus, ...

Along with Colossal Biosciences, the filmmaker is joining an indigenous-centered partnership to resurrect the 12-foot-tall moa, dead for centuries. By Degen Pener Deputy Editor Colossal Biosciences — ...

Colossal Biosciences, Director Peter Jackson, Laker’s Owner Mark Walter and Texas Serial Entrepreneur Ben Lamm are involved in the epic Moa Comeback. Forget concussions or ACL tears. How about coming ...

The ‘Lord of the Rings’ director said this project “is just as exciting, if not more exciting, than any film I could make.” Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson is temporarily ...

It was 10 feet tall and weighed more than 1,000 pounds. But that didn’t stop it from going extinct. An intact, fossilized specimen of the world’s largest egg—of any known species ever on Earth—entered ...

Jackson and his partner Fran Walsh invested $15M in Colossal Biosciences' efforts to revive the extinct giant moa bird Colossal Biosciences (2) Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson and his partner ...