Peter Jackson Just Got an Ultra-Rare Extinct Moa Egg Back to New Zealand With the Help of De-Extinction Startup

As many as 2.5 million of New Zealand’s legendary, towering flightless birds—the now extinct moa—once roamed the south Pacific nation’s hundreds of islands before Polynesian hunters began arriving in 1300 CE, according to a recent assessment by wildlife ecologists. Today, (at best) only some three dozen eggs from this group of species have ever been found.

But now at least one more, extremely rare and nearly complete, moa egg has been recovered and repatriated to its ancestral homeland aided by…