Examination of pigeon bones from Late Bronze Age Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus indicates they were already semi-domesticated as ...

A groundbreaking new study from Cyprus reveals that pigeons were living alongside humans and moving toward domestication nearly 3,400 years ago. This discovery pushes back the earliest direct evidence ...

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

Comparing a backyard sparrow to a fearsome velociraptor seems odd, but modern birds are indeed living dinosaurs. Scientists are finding more and more connections between the past physiology of dinos ...

Of all the species of birds in the world, one of the most underappreciated is the humble rock pigeon (Columba livia). These chunky birds, which are often nicknamed “rats with wings,” usually have a ...

It is true that humans domesticated pigeons for centuries, and feral pigeons do largely stay in urban environments because we brought them there. They are highly trainable, and if fed by humans, they ...