Explosions are messy at the best of times, but when the thing exploding is an animal, or part of an animal, it rarely ends ...

From bats to birds, recent research suggests that fireworks may disrupt routine and sometimes lead to serious injury or death ...

EXCLUSIVE: Switchboard, fresh from striking a first-look deal with Hulu, has acquired a slew of short films and has hired an executive to oversee its narrative fiction projects. The company, which was ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising navigation system in pigeons: iron-filled immune cells in the liver that may act like tiny magnetic sensors. Birds deprived of these cells struggled to find ...

The offense erupted for the Hill City Howlers en route to a 12-6 win over the Wilson Warbirds on Tuesday evening. Hill City led 12-0 through the first four innings before the Warbirds climbed their ...

Pigeons that had been injected with a drug to deplete their special liver cells did not find their way home until the sun came out. Christian Ziegler / Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Pigeons ...

When an American battalion was trapped behind enemy lines in World War I, a pigeon delivered the coordinates that helped save the soldiers when no human messenger could. Later, pigeons carried ...

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Scientists have long known that migrating birds and homing pigeons navigate in part by sensing the Earth’s magnetic fields, especially at night or in overcast conditions when visual landmarks or ...

Pigeons and other birds can do it. So can sea turtles and spiny lobsters, moths and mole rats, gray whales and big brown bats. Many members of the animal kingdom can detect the subtle undulations of ...

When it comes to flocking together, homing pigeons use a simple strategy to find better ways home, according to a recent report. The study, published in the journal eLife, suggests that homing pigeons ...

Bones discovered at an archaeological site in Cyprus suggest the birds have been strutting around human settlements since at least 1400 B.C. By Rachel Nuwer People did not always look down their noses ...