It’s been a decade since Peter Jackson wrapped up The Hobbit trilogy, and while things have been relatively quiet on the ...

Colossal Biosciences has announced its next de-extinction project: the return of the giant moa, a flightless bird native to New Zealand that vanished nearly 600 years ago. The effort, backed by ...

A Texas based company have announced plans to bring a giant flightless bird back from extinction, with backing from Lord of ...

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

Oscar-winning filmmaker behind The Lord of the Rings, is joining forces with Colossal Biosciences, a leading genetic ...

Peter Jackson has denied he is retired from making feature films, despite not making any cinema releases since 2014. The ...

A Texas-based company with backing from Lord of the Rings filmmaker Peter Jackson is trying to bring a giant bird back from extinction. Colossal Biosciences has announced an effort to genetically ...

We've seen a US company bring the wolf species back from extinction after more than 10,000 years, and now the next animal on ...

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.

It's been 11 years since Oscar-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson completed his "Hobbit" trilogy. He has not directed a narrative feature since, though he certainly has not been stagnant. He did, however ...

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 ...

Standing more than three metres (12ft) high, the South Island giant moa is regarded as the tallest bird to have ever walked the face of Earth.