This resurgence was led by founder Henry Ford’s son, Henry II, known as The Deuce, and a group of senior managers, called the Whiz Kids, led by Robert McNamara. General Motors, fuelled by profits from ...

Pigeon pandemonium erupted on a Delta flight from Minnesota to Wisconsin when two birds took flight in the passenger cabin.

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 ...

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 ...

the Branson Ferris Wheel and the World's Largest Toy Museum. It's hard to miss, as the exterior of the museum is a replica of the Titanic — iceberg, water and all. There is a second Titanic Museum in ...

But as technology and mechanized farming changed the continent’s landscape, the passenger pigeon was “targeted,” said Joel Greenberg, author of “A Feathered River Across the Sky ...

The passenger pigeon's demise is a dark example of humanity's effect on the environment. How could such a numerous species be wiped out of existence within half a century? The passenger pigeon's ...

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 ...

When he took his prize inside, Southworth later recalled, his surprised mother exclaimed, “It’s a passenger pigeon!” In nearly every account detailing the extinction of passenger pigeons ...

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. By the early 1900s, only a ...