Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Only a few months after announcing the controversial “de-extinction” of the dire wolf, Colossal Biosciences has now set its sights on restoring the ...

Long before big cats, terror birds reigned as apex predators. Here’s how these flightless birds hunted, and why they went extinct.

The now extinct moa roamed New Zealand 500 years ago - Colossal Biosciences/AP Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson plans to spend millions on resurrecting a giant flightless bird that was hunted ...

Oceania is home to a curious and formidable creature, the cassowary. The dinosaur-like giant has earned the title of the ...

The project, in early stages, aims to bioengineer a moa-like bird while collaborating with Māori leaders and scientists to guide cultural and ecological restoration efforts in New Zealand Critics ...

(CNN) — A species of huge, flightless bird that once inhabited New Zealand disappeared around 600 years ago, shortly after human settlers first arrived on the country’s two main islands. Now, a ...

Filmmaker Peter Jackson, left, and Colossal CEO Ben Lamm hold up bones from Jackson's collection of extinct moa bones in Wellington, New Zealand, 2024. (Courtesy of Colossal Biosciences via AP) ...

Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...

Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson and his partner Fran Walsh invested $15 million in Colossal Biosciences' effort to revive the extinct giant moa bird using ancient DNA and gene editing The ...