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 ...

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 ...

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

Colossal Biosciences has hit the ground running with their de-extinction projects. They previously made waves in the scientific and pop culture communities by bringing back dire wolves, made famous by ...

WASHINGTON -- Filmmaker Peter Jackson owns one of the largest private collections of bones of an extinct New Zealand bird called the moa. His fascination with the flightless ostrich-like bird has led ...

Colossal Bioscience Chief Executive Ben Lamm tells Ryan Bridge about his company's plan to bring back the South Island Giant ...

Last week de-extinction company, Colossal Biosciences, announced it is one step closer to reviving the dodo bird. The breakthrough achievement comes after the company successfully grew pigeon ...

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

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. A depiction is represented of the largest ...

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 ...