After a band of degenerates chopped off the top beak of an innocent toucan, Costa Rica’s Animal Rescue Zoo Ave launched an Indiegogo campaign to save its life and give it an extreme makeover ...

Centuries of interbreeding taught early pigeon fanciers that beak length was likely regulated by just a few heritable factors. Yet modern geneticists have failed to solve Darwin’s mystery by ...

C.D. Treiber et al. Clusters of iron-rich cells in the upper beak of pigeons are macrophages not magnetosensitive neurons. Nature. Published online April 11, 2012. doi: 10.1038/nature11046.

The baby pigeon with a broken beak was found in April, barely 3 weeks old and about to be euthanized.Instead the vet technician got in touch with Elizabeth Young at Palomacy, a rescue organization … ...

Bird beaks come in almost every shape and size – from the straw-like beak of a hummingbird to the slicing, knife-like beak of an eagle. We have found, however, that this incredible diversity is ...

Homing pigeons use the Earth's magnetic field to navigate their way home over long distances, scientists writing in Nature magazine claim. The pigeons probably use tiny magnetic particles in their ...

Yet modern geneticists have failed to solve Darwin’s mystery by pinpointing the molecular machinery controlling short beaks—until now. In a new study, a team of University of Utah biologists led by ...