New Zealand is turning to artificial intelligence to find new ways to protect incredibly rare species of birds that were once ...

Peter Jackson is best known for directing and producing movies such as The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films and "The Beatles: Get Back." Now, he's helping direct a project to resurrect ...

On New Zealand’s remote Chatham Islands, scientists have uncovered the story of a bird that defied expectations, the Rēkohu ...

New Zealand's rarest birds have seemingly come back from the dead. For decades, they were thought to be extinct until tiny populations were rediscovered, the holdouts that survived against the odds.

One does not simply bring back an entire extinct bird species — at least, not without Peter Jackson’s help. Colossal Biosciences announced on Tuesday that it had partnered with the Lord of the Rings ...

Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson and his partner Fran Walsh invested $15 million in Colossal Biosciences' effort to revive the extinct giant moa bird using ancient DNA and gene editing The ...

A wildlife ranger in New Zealand filmed “rare footage” of a fight between a flightless bird and the country’s “largest reptile,” officials said. Photo from New Zealand’s Department of Conservation A ...

The kākāpō is the world's only flightless parrot. It's come back from the brink of extinction, but its future in New Zealand depends on creating habitat without invasive predators. (Yang Liu | Xinhua ...

Director Peter Jackson has done a lot for the world. He gave us six Middle Earth movies and the massive Beatles documentary that, somehow, didn't feel like it was too long. What is there left for ...