Jamil shared this clip of a pigeon who clearly skipped the chapter on indoor etiquette. While making his usual rounds at work, he discovered an unexpected shopper flapping about, not for a sale, but ...

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 “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.

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.

Described as “mourning doves on steroids,” passenger pigeons darkened the sky over American cities when they migrated in their millions well into the 19th century.

The last captive passenger pigeon was a female named Martha (pictured). She died on September 1, 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo. She never succeeded in laying a fertile egg.

The passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) once migrated in flocks of 3 to 5 billion, numbers great enough to black out the sky, but by 1914, the last of its kind, named “Martha,” passed away at ...

Though a captured bird remained alive in a zoo for another decade, nobody ever saw another wild passenger pigeon after a hunter shot one out of the sky in Bar Harbor in 1904.

On Sept. 1, 1914, a Cincinnati Zoological Gardens employee found the lifeless body of Martha, the world’s last living passenger pigeon, resting beneath her perch.. Forty years earlier, Martha ...

Instead, scientists start by decoding DNA from extinct passenger pigeons and, through bio-technology, change the DNA code of living band-tailed pigeons to match the passenger pigeon's code.