It’s 12ft tall, covered in feathers and has been extinct for 600 years – can the giant moa bird really be resurrected?
- Posted on July 11, 2025
- By The Guardian
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It’s 12ft tall, covered in feathers and has been extinct for 600 years – can the giant moa bird really be resurrected?

Colossal Bioscience is adding the extinct animal to its revival wishlist, joining the woolly mammoth, dodo and thylacine. But scepticism is growing