Poultry geneticists have long studied the inheritance of a prized fancy chicken breeding trait; feathered legs. Lead researcher Leif Andersson and colleagues at Texas A&M University, have investigated ...

Charles Darwin bred pigeons, and used them to learn more about the inheritance of different characteristics. For pigeons, beak size is one of those characteristics. There are 350 pigeon breeds or more ...

Scientists have discovered the gene that causes some pigeons to develop flat faces – a conundrum that fascinated legendary British naturalist Charles Darwin. In a new study, the academics report that ...

Charles Darwin was obsessed with domestic pigeons. He thought they held the secrets of selection in their beaks. Free from the bonds of natural selection, the 350-plus breeds of domestic pigeons have ...

Picture a pigeon: gray body, iridescent neck feathers, probably pecking away at trash on a city sidewalk. But there are actually more than 350 different breeds of pigeon, and many of them look nothing ...

While many consider Galapagos finches to be Darwin’s primary inspiration for the theory of evolution, there is another bird who can take credit for the Origin of Species: pigeons. Yes, the ...

Although city dwellers may not want to admit it, humans and pigeons (also known among detractors as "flying rats") have been intertwined since ancient times. We domesticated pigeons between 3,000 and ...

Pigeons come in all colors, shapes, and sizes. Some have feathers reaching up over their heads like a hood. Others have feathers all the way to the tips of their toes or fanned out on their tails like ...

They might be viewed as a pest, but pigeons are actually the most varied birds on the planet. Some have feathers reaching up over their heads like a hood. Others have feathers all the way to the tips ...

Charles Darwin was fascinated by pigeons, believing that the secrets to his revolutionary theory of natural selection in 1859 was held in their beaks.It was believed the development of their beaks ...

Biologists discovered that a mutation in the ROR2 gene is linked to beak size reduction in numerous breeds of domestic pigeons. Surprisingly, different mutations in ROR2 also underlie a human disorder ...