By Clarissa Toll |Staff Writer| Ben Novak, now 27, vowed to devote his life to resurrecting the extinct species of Passenger Pigeons at the age of 13. The last known of its species died in captivity in 1914. Novak and other researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz are working to resurrect the extinct species of pigeon in what they call “The Great Passenger Pigeon Comeback” project. The project is essentially attempting to create a facsimile of the bird. “This was the most abundant bird in the world. It was thought that one out of four, maybe one of three birds in North America in the early 19th century was a passenger pigeon. It really did blacken the sky for days,” … [Read more...] about Scientists try resurrecting extinct species
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