The Plan to Bring the Iconic Passenger Pigeon Back From Extinction

On one hand, the Passenger Pigeon is an obvious choice for a species to bring back. Humanity wiped it out recently and there are a bunch of potential sources of DNA in the form of some 1500 stuffed examples. On the other hand, the Passenger Pigeon was something of an ecological nightmare, like locusts with wings.

Still: if they are recreated, released and become a nuisance, at least we know we can take ’em out again…