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

Humans once lived among enormous, wingless birds in New Zealand, but within a few hundred years of our species arrival, they ...

The famed Lord of the Rings director has donated his money and his bones to make a legend come to life with Colossal ...

The giant moa has been extinct for 900 years, but Maori researchers working Colossal Biosciences and filmmaker Peter Jackson ...

An analysis of two theropod dinosaur fossils has shown that they had a type of carpal bone (pisiform) in their wrists—a bone ...

It’s fortunate for us there are no giant meat-eating birds, but you must admit it would be rather cool, at least if their ...

Imagine the sound of a dinosaur roaring... Super loud, right? Wrong... It turns out the giant prehistoric creatures almost ...

Researchers from New Zealand will try to revive extinct birds, with help from Colossal Biosciences and film-maker Sir Peter ...

A team of paleontologists and researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has discovered what may be the ...

Birds retain both these traits from their dinosaur ancestors, yet they have never equaled their largest extinct relatives in size.

The Biggest Penguin That Ever Existed Was a ‘Monster Bird’ Fossils found in New Zealand highlight an era after the dinosaurs when giant flightless birds prowled the seas for prey. Share full ...

Like other dinosaurs, including modern birds, sauropods hatched from eggs. The larger an egg is, the sturdier the shell needs to be.