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 ...

She was the last known member of her species. Several decades earlier, the idea of passenger pigeons going extinct was almost unimaginable. People living in North America in the first half of the ...

De-extinction has been proposed as a way of bringing back a number of vanished species, including the woolly mammoth. But it’s the passenger pigeon that is currently getting the most attention.

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 ...

A female and male Passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) mount from the collections of the Royal Ontario Museum. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 17, 2017, issue of ...

over-hunting and habitat destruction drove the birds to a swift extinction. Check out these photos of the passenger pigeon's tragic demise - and a high-tech effort that just might bring them back.

A California-based conservation company called Revive & Restore is hoping to bring back the passenger pigeon, an extinct bird which once numbered in the billions before it was wiped out in the ...

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 exact causes of the passenger pigeon's extinction are unclear, but massive hunting and persecution were among the most devastating impacts, since the bird was very poorly adapted to escape people.