Larger, with a longer tail than a rock pigeon; blue-gray on the upper parts with contrasting blackish gray flight feathers; a blackish gray tail with a broad, pale gray terminal band. Paler-gray ...

First, Novak and Shapiro plan to sequence the genome of the passenger pigeon and compare it to that of the bird’s closest living relative, the band-tailed pigeon, to pick out the most important ...

The passenger pigeon is long extinct and nothing short of time travel can reverse that, but de-extinction initiatives could create a living replica of the species. This would involve using a close ...