15 Jul 2025

Bringing back extinct animals: Why, how and why again?

From Afternoons, 3:10 pm on 15 July 2025
A new project backed by film-maker Sir Peter Jackson aims to bring the extinct South Island giant moa back to life in less than eight years.

Photo: Colossal Biosciences

Sir Peter Jackson got everyone talking with his plans to bring back the moa (in in partnership with the Ngāi Tahu Research Centre at Canterbury University and Canterbury Museum).

But he's not the first to want to resurrect the past, earlier this year Texas company Colossal Biosciences announced it had successfully brought back 3 dire wolf cubs after 10 thousand years of extinction. 

Jesse talks to a member of the Colossal team, Dr Andrew Pask. 

Dr Andrew Pask

Photo: Supplied by Dr Andrew Pask