The common pigeon has been tapped to guide missiles and spot life rafts, but it has never undertaken the role of the radiologist. Until now. In a study released last week, scientists at UC Davis and ...

When Hasan Khalil, a 34-year-old from northern Iraq, first saw pigeons flying around the Syrian refugee camp where he spent the majority of his childhood, he never could have imagined that he would ...

This pigeon is rewarded with food every time it pecks the correct button. (Image via The University of Iowa) Human radiologists, look out. Pigeons turn out to be expert mammogram readers after very ...

It’s a bit disconcerting to be told that the feral pigeon you’ve recently befriended would make an ideal assassin, but that’s what the guy was telling me. Also disconcerting was that the guy doing the ...

Hundreds of trained homing pigeons were burned to death in their rooftop coop as a massive inferno tore through five Brooklyn buildings Tuesday night, officials and residents said Wednesday. The fire ...

SIOUX FALLS | The bird is under a wire basket in some grassy cover on an acreage west of Sioux Falls. About a dozen paces distant, Greta, a gorgeous 10-year-old German wirehair, is scenting around, ...

You’re walking through town, juggling your keys and your phone, and a pigeon just strolls across your path like you’re in its ...

The common belief is that pigeons are dirty, useless and kind of dumb. There are many—particularly New York City residents—who would go so far as call them rats with wings. Around three years ago, ...