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The Extinction (and De-Extinction?) of the Passenger Pigeon

Martha died on September 1st, 1914. She was 29. Martha wasn’t your average Hollywood starlet – she was something even more rare: an endling, the last member of her species. Just a few hundred years earlier, passenger pigeons flocks were so large that they could literally darken the sky for hours. So how did we get from those numbers to extinction? And are they really gone for good?

English
  • Originally Aired October 13, 2025
  • Runtime 14 minutes
  • Network YouTube
  • Created December 11, 2025 by
    sys.arc
  • Modified December 11, 2025 by
    sys.arc
Name Type Role
Sarah Suta Producer
Hank Green Host
Seth Radley Executive Producer
Caitlin Hofmeister Executive Producer
Hank Green Executive Producer