The dogged search for a bird that many people figured had gone extinct included torrential rains, washed-out bridges, swine ...

Ben Lamm, an entrepreneur focused on resurrecting extinct species, joins "Elizabeth Vargas Reports" to discuss why he and legendary film director Peter Jackson want to bring back the moa, a giant bird ...

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 blue crane once rebounded through conservation—but now it's in sharp decline again. Experts warn the next 15 years are ...

"All whooping cranes today are descended from only 14 adults remaining on the Texas coast in 1941", he added. Thanks to decades of legal protection, habitat restoration and cross-border collaboration, ...

The 12-foot bird roamed the country for 4,000 years until they became extinct about 600 years ago, mainly because of overhunting.

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

It has taken no end of imagination for Sir Peter Jackson, the Academy Award winning—and, not incidentally, knighted—director of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films, to produce his entire ...

Texas genetics engineering company Colossal Biosciences is teaming with filmmaker Peter Jackson and New Zealand experts to bring back another species.

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Superb starlings help care for the offspring of birds they are not related to. “To me, that sounds like friendship,” one scientist said.