The passenger pigeon lacked this spot. When rising in flight, the mourning dove makes a whistling sound with its wings, whereas the passenger pigeon did not. The juveniles-of the mourning dove and ...

While the ivory-billed woodpecker has attracted a lot of attention in the 21st century due to reported sightings, it was not been the only Arkansas-dwelling bird that went extinct during the 20th ...

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 ...

Once the scientists have created a passenger pigeon-like genome, they will insert this altered DNA into reproductive cells in band-tailed pigeon embryos. The birds will mature, mate, and lay eggs.

But on September 1, 1914, the last of the passenger pigeon's kind — a 29-year-old bird named Martha — died in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden.

PETOSKEY — In 1914, the very last known passenger pigeon died at the Cincinnati Zoo. Now, 109 years later, passenger pigeons are most famously known as a species driven to extinction.

The “next” passenger pigeon, if there ever is one, might lead a life not so different from that of the last of the original species. In her final days, Martha lived alone.

The passenger pigeon, native to the Midwest, was an iconic species. In his 1955 book, Madison native Bill Schorger documented how their flocks, often containing millions of birds, would dive into ...

State Rep. Perry Stambaugh, R-Perry, introduced House Bill 400 to designate the passenger pigeon as the official extinct species of Pennsylvania. Stambaugh said the passenger pigeon, once the most ...

The passenger pigeon lacked this spot. When rising in flight, the mourning dove makes a whistling sound with its wings, whereas the passenger pigeon did not. The juveniles-of the mourning dove and ...