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, ...

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 ...

One does not simply bring back an entire extinct bird species — at least, not without Peter Jackson’s help. Colossal Biosciences announced on Tuesday that it had partnered with the Lord of the Rings ...

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 ...

Filmmaker Peter Jackson has taken up a new role. The Lord of the Rings director is on a mission to bring back the Moa, a bird native to New Zealand which went extinct 600 years ago. The largest ...

The company attempting to bring back the woolly mammoth has now set its sights on a new extinct species. Colossal Biosciences has announced it will attempt to 'de-extinct' a group of birds called the ...

The giant moa was the world’s largest bird, up to 11 feet high and 500 lbs., a peaceable, plant-eating giant that lived on the edges of forests in New Zealand’s South Island. Then the island’s first ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Earlier this year, scientists at the Texas-based Colossal Biosciences boldly announced the “world’s first de-extinction” by bringing back the long ...