For decades, scientists have puzzled over how pigeons navigate across vast distances with remarkable accuracy. New research ...

A study details a surprising new way into how pigeons find their way home. Some animals including birds orient themselves using both the sun and Earth’s magnetic field as a compass.

A pigeon (Columba livia) takes flight. (Vincent Pommeyrol/Moment/Getty Images) Long before the arrival of internet messengers ...

Scientists have long known that migrating birds and homing pigeons navigate in part by sensing the Earth’s magnetic fields, especially at night or in overcast conditions when visual landmarks or ...

At least part of the answer appears to be hiding inside a seemingly random organ. Immune cells inside pigeon livers called ...

For centuries, homing pigeons have amazed people with their ability to return home across vast distances. Even when released ...

Homing pigeons owe their remarkable ability to travel long distances not to their eyes, brains, or beak, but to special cells ...

While pigeons are now mostly reviled as dirty city pests, they long played an important role in human society.