The New York State Museum has an extensive collection of extinct birds, including four Carolina parakeets, as well as an ancient DNA laboratory. Kirchman extracted small amounts of DNA from the museum ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Parrots are not an uncommon bird species — there are about ...
It was winter in upstate New York in 1780 in a rural town called Schoharie, home to the deeply religious Palatine Germans. Suddenly, a flock of gregarious red and green birds flew into town, seemingly ...