Researchers sequenced the DNA of Cuban blue-headed quail dove, expecting clear origins. Instead, they found it has no close ...

The blue-headed quail dove is a uniquely ancient species with no close relatives and is now on the brink of extinction. At ...

For decades, this unassuming bird has perplexed biologists, who have no idea where it came from, how it got to the island or what it’s related to. Now, for the first time, scientists have sequenced ...

Blue-headed quail doves were once assumed to be ... The study was part of a broader initiative to discover the causes of bird extinction in the Caribbean over the last several thousand years.