News

‘Lord of the Rings’ director backs long shot de-extinction plan, starring New Zealand’s lost moa
Filmmaker Peter Jackson's fascination with a large extinct New Zealand bird has led to an unusual partnership with a biotech ...
Peter Jackson Wants to Bring This 400-Pound Flightless Bird Back From Extinction
Along with Colossal Biosciences, the filmmaker is joining an indigenous-centered partnership to resurrect the 12-foot-tall ...
First They Brought Back Dire Wolves. Next Up Is the World’s Tallest Bird
Colossal Biosciences, the startup that brought back the dire wolf, is now focusing on New Zealand's giant moa.
IGN Africa53m
It’s More Jurassic Park Than Lord of the Rings, but Peter Jackson Is Trying to Resurrect a Giant Bird That Went Extinct 600 Years Ago — the Celebrated Director Tells Us Why
While Peter Jackson is busy working on the new Lord of the Rings movie, The Hunt for Gollum, he’s also pursuing something very different indeed: the resurrection of extinct animals. In an exclusive ...
After dire wolf's return, Peter Jackson wants to bring back this New Zealand bird
Texas genetics engineering company Colossal Biosciences is teaming with filmmaker Peter Jackson and New Zealand experts to ...
IFLScience1h
A Colossal Moa: One Of The Biggest Birds Ever To Walk The Earth Becomes 5th "De-Extinction" Species
H umans once lived among enormous, wingless birds in New Zealand, but within a few hundred years of our species arrival, they were wiped out. Now, Colossal Biosciences has announced its plans to ...
The Straits Times4d
Dead as a dodo? The unsettling bid to bring back extinct species
The trusting, tubby, flightless bird became a sitting duck for hunters and easy prey for introduced species such as cats and dogs. The last dodo is thought to have been hunted in the 1660s.