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flag Peter Jackson funds $15M project to genetically engineer birds resembling extinct New Zealand moa.

flag Film director Peter Jackson is backing a $15 million project with biotech company Colossal Biosciences to genetically engineer birds that resemble the extinct South Island giant moa, a 12-foot-tall bird native to New Zealand. flag The project, which includes the Ngāi Tahu Research Centre, aims to extract DNA from preserved moa bones and compare it to genomes of living birds. flag Despite scientific skepticism about reintroducing extinct species, the initiative seeks to bring the moa back through genetic engineering.

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