In a groundbreaking Indigenous-led initiative, the Ngāi Tahu Research Centre has partnered with Texas-based de-extinction ...

Filmmaker Peter Jackson owns one of the largest private collections of bones of an extinct New Zealand bird called the moa.

In a “Jurassic Park”-esque fashion, “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson and the Texas-based biotech company Colossal ...

LOTR’s Peter Jackson joins a Māori-led plan to resurrect the long-lost giant moa by combining ancient culture with bold ...

The Ngāi Tahu Research Centre was established in 2011 to support the intellectual growth and development of Ngāi Tahu, the principal iwi (Māori tribe) of the southern region of New Zealand.

Colossal Biosciences, the startup that brought back the dire wolf, is now focusing on New Zealand's giant moa.

A species of huge, flightless bird that once inhabited New Zealand disappeared around 600 years ago, shortly after human ...

The announcement that New Zealand’s moa nunui (giant moa) is the next “de-extinction” target for Colossal Biosciences, in partnership with Canterbury Museum, the Ngāi Tahu Research Centre and ...

New Zealand’s Giant Moa stood over three meters tall but were easy prey Researchers from New Zealand will try to revive extinct birds, with help from Colossal Biosciences and film-maker Sir Peter ...

A groundbreaking new collaboration is working to resurrect one of New Zealand’s most enigmatic lost species, the South Island ...

Helen Brown (Ngāi Tahu) is a descendant of Te Wharerimu and Patahi, two wāhine toa from the deep south. She is a senior researcher in the Archive Team at Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu. In 2017 she ...