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 ...

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.

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 ...

It’s forcing the human race into what evolutionary biologists call a “bottleneck” — a period of rapid pressure that threatens cultures, customs and peoples with extinction. When college ...

A Frontier Airlines passenger recounted how one of the plane’s wheels broke off during a terrifying landing in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Melani Gonzalez Wharton wrote on Facebook that her family ...

raising awareness of “martyr” species – like the northern white rhino and the passenger pigeon – helps underline the argument in favour of protecting current species. Framing extinction as ...

In her recent book How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction, Shapiro builds on her vast experience studying ancient DNA (from woolly mammoths and bison to dodos and passenger pigeons ...

First, the new animals are not real dire wolves, they are hybrids that resemble the extinct animals ... mammoths or sky-darkening flocks of passenger pigeons. There are also ethical ...

De-extinction fans suggest that this might be a way for people to feel less guilty about the havoc we have wrought on wildlife. We killed off the dodo, the great auk, the passenger pigeon, and we are ...

Passenger Pigeon. Image by James St. John, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The story of the passenger pigeon is one that ...