Colossal Biosciences has announced a partnership to resurrect giant flightless birds called moa. But the company's recent dire wolf project was controversial, and moa are an even more ambitious target ...

The real big bird returns. A company that claims to have resurrected the dire wolf has unveiled plans to bring back the moa, a long-extinct bird that once towered over people. The company, Colossal ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are nowhere to be found. From human activity to climate change, new animals ...

Once upon a time, the likes of Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg imagined a world where scientists on the cutting edge of genetic research pieced together bits of DNA, both ancient and modern, to ...

The mangled leg of a prehistoric predator suggests it may have been killed by an even bigger beast 13 million years ago, boffins believe. Terror birds — a ...

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Jackson and his partner Fran Walsh invested $15M in Colossal Biosciences' efforts to revive the extinct giant moa bird Colossal Biosciences (2) Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson and his partner ...

A biotech startup is taking the first real steps towards bringing the dodo bird back from extinction. No one has seen this bird since the late 17th century, but that doesn't mean it has been forgotten ...

The dodo bird vanished more than 300 years ago, but its story still sparks curiosity. Native to just one island and wiped out in just a few decades, the dodo has become a symbol of extinction and ...