Peter Jackson attends 'The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim' world premiere at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on Dec.

WASHINGTON — Filmmaker Peter Jackson owns one of the largest private collections of bones of an extinct New Zealand bird ...

A species of huge, flightless bird that once inhabited New Zealand disappeared around 600 years ago, shortly after human settlers first arrived on the country’s two main islands. Now, a Texas-based ...