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

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

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

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

The South Island giant moa, a massive, flightless bird that disappeared from New Zealand around 600 years ago due to ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Unlike other large flightless birds which still retain vestigial wings, moa were completely wingless. They took about 10 years to reach maturity and laid one egg at a time. That egg was especially ...

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.