Charles Darwin bred pigeons, and used them to learn more about the inheritance of different characteristics. For pigeons, beak size is one of those characteristics. There are 350 pigeon breeds or more ...

The authors of a major study on the once critically endangered pink pigeon say boosting the species' numbers is not enough to save it from extinction in the future. Despite the population increase, ...

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Charles Darwin was obsessed with domestic pigeons. He thought they held the secrets of selection in their beaks. Free from the bonds of natural selection, the 350-plus breeds of domestic pigeons have ...

The red-headed wood pigeon, a critically endangered species endemic to the Ogasawara Islands, Japan. Although it was on the verge of extinction in the 2000s, it can now be seen even near residential ...

When conservationists removed 131 feral cats from Japan’s remote Ogasawara Islands, no one imagined it would spark an ecological miracle. Within three short years, the population of a nearly extinct ...

Biologists discovered that a mutation in the ROR2 gene is linked to beak size reduction in numerous breeds of domestic pigeons. Surprisingly, different mutations in ROR2 also underlie a human disorder ...