Now a common sight on dinner tables and in supermarket fridges, chickens have not always been considered food, and for centuries were celebrated and even worshipped, new research suggests. Rice ...

(CN) — In the age old riddle of which came first, the chicken or the egg, new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday suggests the answer might actually be ...

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, using radiocarbon dating on about 30 chicken bones unearthed at the site of an ancient farming village in what is now Ethiopia, found that chickens ...

Chickens have never had a reputation as intellectual heavyweights and scientists at Linköping University in Sweden may have found the reason why. Experimental breeding suggests that the process of ...

Archaeologists say they’ve found evidence showing that humans in Central Asia began to raise ancient chickens for their eggs as early as 400 BCE. Reading time 2 minutes New research points to a clear ...

The origin of the domestic fowl is more recent than previously thought, but it may have taken them thousands of years to become food. By James Gorman The real chicken mystery has nothing to do with ...

Wild boars and red junglefowl gave rise to common pigs and chickens. These animals' genes evolved to express themselves differently, leading to signatures of domestication -- such as weaker bones and ...

Researchers suggest a process by which the timid junglefowl from the rain forest could have become today's domesticated chicken. When the scientists selectively bred the junglefowl with least fear of ...

Source: Per Jensen, used with permission. How did selective breeding by ancient humans change the timid, rainforest-dwelling junglefowl into today’s domesticated chicken? In a recent study, ...

Researchers from Linköping University suggest a process by which the timid junglefowl from the rain forest could have become today's domesticated chicken. When the scientists selectively bred the ...