In eastern Thailand, 5,000 pigeons brave predators and exhaustion in a gruelling sprint for a US$2 million purse Somewhere on ...

Homing pigeons combine multiple navigation systems—using the sun’s position for direction, a magnetic sense to orient on overcast days, and olfactory (smell) cues to build a mental map of their home ...

The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the war—flying messages from submarine-hunting blimps during a time when radio ...

A major new office-to-residential conversion is officially on its way to Midtown. Nathan Berman's Metro Loft Management, arguably the most experienced of the city's developers at such conversions, has ...

SEVIER COUNTY, Tenn. — Safety upgrades are expected to happen in one East Tennessee City in the coming months. for the past two years Pigeon Forge has not had a designated landing zone for lifestar ...

LIMBURG, Belgium — The Chinese businessmen arrived in the Belgian countryside driving luxury sports cars, ferrying translators and bags of cash. When they parked in front of Tom Van Gaver’s small ...

On Tuesday, the Towamensing Township Zoning Hearing Board denied a request for a homing pigeon business in the township. Damon Graves and Kate Hillenbrand were appealing a zoning variance to ...

In the fall of 1918, hundreds of U.S. infantrymen found themselves surrounded by German forces in northern France’s Argonne Forest. Here’s the incredible story of how they managed to survive. World ...

Scientists have long been baffled by pigeons’ ability to find their way back home from hundreds of miles away. And despite decades of study and research that have shown what the birds do, they still ...

“They should have been back by now,” Marsha Fredrichs said on a recent Thursday morning from the tandem glider in her Lakeville yard, her eyes trained on the sky. Marsha was in the perch where she and ...