Peter Jakson seeks to return extinct Giant Moa

[dragon53]

LINK: https://comicbookmovie.com/other/lord-of-the-rings-filmmaker-sir-peter-jackson-on-teaming-with-colossal-to-resurrect-the-giant-moa-exclusive-a222680


LINK: https://screenrant.com/peter-jackson-colossal-biosciences-giant-moa-de-exctinction-ben-lamm-kyle-davis-interview/

[Shane]

There's not a lot of info on the actual process of "de-extincting" the moa in those articles, but if it's anything like the "de-extincting" of the dire wolf, it'll basically be a tinamou that maybe looks kinda like a moa.

Also this is going to be a lot tougher to pull off considering that moas and tinamous are not even in the same order (as opposed to direwolves and gray wolves which are in the same subfamily).

[carliro]

Bird cloning is borderline impossible at the moment, since bird embryos require calcium eggshells to construct their skeletons.

Besides, I'm not tursting them to just gene edit a duck and call it a moa

[DinoToyForum]

Peter Jakson should never have took it in the first place! 

[Prehistory Resurrection]

I'm from Mauritius and have seen many news articles/ videos that the Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is coming back quite some time now. Several bones and a well-preserved head with soft tissue have been found. Nothing till date. So, I am not hopeful about the Giant Moa.

[The Templar of the Past]

Bird cloning is borderline impossible at the moment, since bird embryos require calcium eggshells to construct their skeletons.

Not that de-extinction of mammals went any better, the pyrenean ibex isn't even a different species from the iberian ibex and the specimen died shortly after birth.