Kiwi film-maker Sir Peter Jackson has invested $10 million towards a start-up company aimed at reviving extinct animals such as the dodo bird. The original species is “dead as a dodo” as the saying goes ..

. or is it? The cash was put into the Texas company, Colossal Biosciences , a genetics and biosciences company known for trying to bring back animals like the woolly mammoth and the dodo. The Lord of the Rings director, 62 and his wife Fran Walsh, 65, donated the money in a bid to prevent species from going extinct, including those native to New Zealand.

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