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Scientists launch effort to resurrect extinct giant flightless bird
Straits Times 18 Jul 2025
But many scientists are sceptical of the ethics behind such costly “de-extinction” efforts ....
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Why can’t some birds fly? The science behind flightless birds
The Times of India 16 Jul 2025
But why does that happen if birds evolved to fly?Flightless birds make up less than 1% of all bird species today, yet they tell an interesting evolutionary story ... Flightless birds like the ostrich, ...
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Lord of the Rings director wants to resurrect extinct giant flightless bird
AOL 11 Jul 2025
Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson plans to spend millions on resurrecting a giant flightless bird that was hunted to extinction 500 years ago in New Zealand.
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Giant, flightless bird is next target for de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences
Yahoo Daily News 10 Jul 2025
A species of huge, flightless bird that once ...
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Colossal Biosciences to ‘de-extinct’ New Zealand's giant flightless bird moa. What to know
Hindustan Times 09 Jul 2025
Colossal Biosciences, together with Maori partners, has revealed intentions to functionally bring back the moa – a massive, flightless bird that disappeared within 150 years after humans arrived in New Zealand roughly a thousand years ago.
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Colossal plans to resurrect New Zealand’s giant flightless birds from extinction
Interesting Engineering 09 Jul 2025
Until the 1400s, New Zealand was home to the moa, a group of nine species of flightless birds ... For centuries, these flightless birds have been just a memory, a part of New Zealand’s rich yet lost natural heritage.
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Peter Jackson Wants to Bring This 400-Pound Flightless Bird Back From Extinction
The Hollywood Reporter 08 Jul 2025
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A Biologist Spotlights The Smallest Flightless Bird, Found On Earth’s Only ‘Inaccessible’ Island
Forbes 06 Jul 2025
Flightless birds like the ostrich or emu tend to ...
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Meet 4 Flightless Birds That Have Evaded Extinction. Hint: One Is The Biggest Bird In ...
Forbes 11 May 2025
Flightless birds have had a rough go of it over the ...
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Council calls for Penguin Island closure as population of flightless birds dwindles
Australian Broadcasting Corporation 07 May 2025
The City of Rockingham lobbies for the closure of Penguin Island to visitors, as the dwindling population of the animals that gave the island its name reaches crisis point ... .
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