WASHINGTON Filmmaker Peter Jackson is supporting a bold effort to genetically revive the extinct South Island giant moa , a flightless bird native to New Zealand that stood up to 3.6 meter tall before disappearing around 600 years ago due to overhunting. Jackson, who owns one of the largest private moa bone collections, and his partner Fran Walsh have invested $15 million into the project led by Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based biotech company focused on “de-extinction” technologies. The