Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new theory claims to have solved the long-standing conundrum of how homing pigeons use Earth’s magnetic field to find their way.

Homing pigeons rely on iron-loaded immune cells in their livers to sense Earth’s magnetic field, a biological compass system never documented in any other animal. A study published in Science found ...

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 ...

Long before the arrival of internet messengers, pigeons were prized and bred for their ability to find their way back home across vast distances, a message tied to their leg. The importance of 'pigeon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Homing pigeon being released by scientist (Christian Ziegler/ Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior) Homing pigeons owe their ...