In a “Jurassic Park”-esque fashion, “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson and the Texas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences are partnering to “de-extinct” the centuries-extinct New Zealand ...

On Tuesday, Colossal Biosciences announced their plans to bring back the tallest bird that ever lived, which has been extinct for nearly 600 years. The giant moa — a husky, wingless bird that ...

Video game Angry Birds, developed by Robin Entertainment in 2009, features colorful wingless bird characters. The original concept, the characters and the game design were created by Jaako Iisalo ...

The Oceanic country has been inhabited by numerous strange creatures, some of them already extinct, such as the moa, a ...

The giant moa — a husky, wingless bird that could stand almost 12 feet tall — once booked it across New Zealand’s landscapes on legs that looked like a cross between an overgrown chicken and ...

Angry Birds is a video game franchise created by Finnish computer game developer Rovio Entertainment. Inspired primarily by a sketch of stylized wingless birds, the first game was first released ...

Standing as tall as 12ft (3.6m), the wingless birds were once found across New Zealand but were hunted to extinction about 700 years ago.

Apply or nominate today! Five years isn’t a bad run for a bunch of wingless birds. On Dec. 10, 2009, Finnish game developer Rovio Entertainment released Angry Birds on Apple’s App Store.

Extinctions, by Australian writer Josephine Wilson, opens with a photograph of a man standing beside a large fossil from an 1879 book, Extinct Wingless Birds of New Zealand. The past is invoked ...