Passenger Pigeon

• Did you know: These 5 species could one day disappear from across Canada

  While we may think of tigers and rhinoceroses when we consider animals that are threatened, Canada has many of its own.

  Canada

  Oct 25, 2014
  
• The great disappearance of the passenger pigeon – and a comeback?

  The passenger pigeons were masters of the sky. They made up nearly 40% of North America’s entire bird population. But a half century later they were gone.

  Oct 24, 2014
  
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• Can DNA sequencing bring extinct species back to life?

  Ben Novak’s life work is the passenger pigeon – an extinct bird he hopes to “resurrect” by sequencing its DNA.

  Canada

  Oct 23, 2014
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• ROM to help revive extinct passenger pigeon

  The Royal Ontario Museum is opening up its vault to potentially play an integral role in bringing back the extint passenger pigeon.

  Mar 10, 2014