A hundred years ago on Monday, a once-mighty species became extinct. At the Cincinnati Zoo, a passenger pigeon named Martha died at the age of 29. People coming to the zoo to see the last ...

In Martha’s memory, here are a few things you might not have known about the extinct passenger pigeon. 1. At one time, there were billions of passenger pigeons in North America. Biodiversity ...

This extinct bird might be the key to restoring the biosphere. From the wooly mammoth to the passenger pigeon, extinct species once maintained the balance of the earth’s delicate ecosystems.

Adapted from A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction by Joel Greenberg, out now from Bloomsbury. By 1900 there were three captive flocks of breeding ...

Now, 109 years later, passenger pigeons are most famously known as a species driven to extinction. Historical records state passenger pigeons were once so numerous they darkened the skies when ...

Researchers are now studying how to bring the passenger pigeon back. Only one animal cloned back from extinction — a Pyrenean ibex — has ever been born, but it died minutes later of lung defects.

They were downing passenger pigeons, and it is hard to comprehend that just a few years later the most populous bird on the planet would become extinct.

As an archaeological scientist with a background in ecology and chemical analyses, I have always been fascinated by great extinction events and the disappearance of the passenger pigeon is one of ...

Children throughout the region are taught about extinction through books about Martha. And parents and grandparents who know about the rise and fall of passenger pigeons tell their little ones ...

This is the place you go if you want to de-extinct a mammoth or a passenger pigeon. Every year it gets ... shows up as a differently sized peak on a graph. It was Marr’s job to read the pattern ...