A giant, flightless bird that roamed New Zealand before going extinct about 600 years ago is the next species on a ...

After a controversial project claiming to have resurrected the dire wolf, Colossal Biosciences has now announced plans to ...

Paul Scofield, a project adviser and senior curator of natural history at the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand, ...

“Some of those iconic species that feature in our tribal mythology, our storytelling, are very near and dear to us,” says ...

The announcement that New Zealand's moa nunui (giant moa) is the next "de-extinction" target for Colossal Biosciences, in ...

A de-extinction company plans to recreate the giant moa bird, but scientists question the ethics and scientific accuracy of ...

To restore the moa, Colossal Biosciences announced Tuesday it would collaborate with New Zealand’s Ngāi Tahu Research Centre, an institution based at the University of Canterbury in ...

A trailblazing genetic-engineering project, backed by movie director Sir Peter Jackson and iwi Ngāi Tahu, proposes to bring ...

Unlike other large flightless birds which still retain vestigial wings, moa were completely wingless. They took about 10 ...

Colossal Biosciences announced an effort to genetically engineer living birds to resemble the extinct South Island giant moa ...