And then they were gone. Only a century after that flock passed through Kentucky like a hurricane, the last passenger pigeon died in a drab cage at the Cincinnati Zoological Gardens. Her name was ...

The extinction of the passenger pigeon is a poignant example of what happens when the interests of man clash with the interests of nature. It is believed that this species once constituted 25 to 40 ...

The passenger pigeon was once the most numerous bird in the world. In the mid-1800s, billions of these birds were flying over the forests of eastern North America. Yet in just half a century, they’d ...

Over the past week, the media have been inundated with news of the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus)—a ...

Additionally, the story has been updated with information regarding the joint forestry experiment and the positive potential for passenger pigeon de-extinction from Revive & Restore. The passenger ...

The three wolves – named Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi – live in a private facility and have reportedly grown as big as 80 ...

DESCRIPTION: The passenger pigeon was much larger than the somewhat similarly plumed mourning dove. Adapted for speed and maneuverability in flight, it had a small head and neck; long tail; long, ...

The United States used to belong to passenger pigeons. The highly successful birds traversed the continent in flocks of hundreds of millions, impervious to predators from their sheer numbers alone.

one species of pigeon went extinct. That species is the passenger pigeon. In the 1800s, the passenger pigeon was believed to be the "most abundant bird" native to the US. Some even argued it was ...

Now, a genomic analysis of conserved pigeon specimens sheds light on how the extinction occurred. Researchers were able to show that the passenger pigeon population did not have much genetic diversity ...

Passenger pigeon genome shows effects of natural selection in a huge population University of California - Santa Cruz Journal Science Funder Revive and Restore Catalyst Science Fund, Gordon and ...

The noble passenger pigeon's common name comes from the French term pigeon de passage, referring to the massive migrations of these birds across the sky. A flock of passenger pigeons reported in ...