After an inspiring pigeon encounter with her son, a mother discovered a new appreciation for birds and the everyday wonders ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) In just the last several months, de-extinction - bringing back ... Despite a deep bench of more ...

Solomon Islands is the Pacific region's largest legal commercial exporter of wildlife for the exotic pet trade - a ...

Gunfire brought down many passenger pigeons as upscale restaurants featured them on menus. The hunt drove the species to extinction with the last bird dying in a Cincinnati zoo in 1914.

A passenger pigeon on display at the Falls of the Ohio visitor center at the Louisville Museum. (Photo: James St. John, 2010) So you can see that even as early as the 1600s, settlers to North America ...

The sad story of the passenger pigeon is an important part of Wisconsin history, and a link to an area bordering Juneau County.

In 1886, as Rhode Island celebrated the 250th anniversary of its founding, the last passenger pigeons were taken, one by Walter A. Angell and a dozen in Warwick by J. M. Flanagan.

About 150 species of butterflies have been documented in Ohio, but none are better known and more beloved than the iconic ...

Life as a wild animal might seem dull – no TV, books, or music. However, domesticated animals often bridge the gap between ...

The carrier pigeon, within the 1800s, was estimated to represent about a quarter of the U.S. bird population by scientists. Flash forward to the 1910s, and the last carrier went extinct. Stories ...

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 ...