A University of Texas at Arlington team exploring pigeons as a model for vertebrate evolution has uncovered that mutations and interactions among just three genes create a wide variety of color ...

Often dubbed “the rats of the sky,” pigeons have a bad — but mostly unearned — rap in modern society. Despite the stigma, these birds have some impressive skills. Pigeons refuse to be pigeonholed.

The pigeon is a nasty bird. Sooty, dingy, generally unpleasant to behold. But right now, as part of the currently underway Venice Biennale contemporary art festival in Venice, Italy, the city’s ...