Why it's awesome: The southern cassowary is one of the most prehistoric-looking birds on Earth. They are often likened to a modern-day dinosaur due to their massive size, vivid colouration and ...

Mark Walter, the new owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, is backing one of the most ambitious science projects of the decade: bringing back an extinct bird from the dead. It's called the moa, a giant, ...

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 ...

Colossal Biosciences, Director Peter Jackson, Laker’s Owner Mark Walter and Texas Serial Entrepreneur Ben Lamm are involved in the epic Moa Comeback. Forget concussions or ACL tears. How about coming ...

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 ...

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 ...

Standing around 10 feet tall, weighing around 220 pounds and with an axe-like beak capable of delivering devastating strikes, the terror bird would have proved a ...

A study of a bizarre prehistoric bird's fossilized remains has uncovered fascinating new details regarding its behavior. Living around 120 million years ago, the species, Longipteryx chaoyangensis, is ...

A bird thought to be extinct for 140 years has been rediscovered in the forests of Papua New Guinea. The black-naped pheasant-pigeon was documented by scientists for the first and last time in 1882, ...

A once-extinct bird is laying eggs in the wild for the first time in nearly 40 years. Sihek, a now-endangered bird returned to the wild in 2024, has laid wild eggs in its new home in Hawaii, according ...