UC Davis genetist Mary Delany coordinated the analysis of the genome sequence. An international consortium of researchers, including a geneticist at the University of California, Davis, uncovered a ...

In a jam-packed chicken segment that often feels like a high school hallway between classes, there was something different about Chicken Salad Chick. Scott Deviney, a Southeast Wendy’s franchisee with ...

Mark Berres traces the history of the domestication of the common chicken. Mark Berres, Assistant Professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at UW-Madison, discusses junglefowl, four species of ...

Chickens were domesticated from Asian jungle fowl around 6000 years ago. Since domestication they have acquired a number of traits that are valuable to humans, including those concerning appearance, ...

There is a generation of consumers today that has always viewed chicken as the cheapest protein meat available for purchase when in fact, not so terribly long ago, it was one of the most expensive.

UC San Diego experts in bioinformatics have co-authored with other scientists the first large-scale comparison of mammal and bird genomes, published in the December 9 edition of Nature. The journal's ...

For about 6,000 years, humans and chickens have led an interconnected existence, with the latter serving the former a regular supply of nourishing meat and eggs. Evolving from an Asian species of red ...

Christians in medieval Europe appear to have inadvertently influenced the evolution of modern chickens to boost traits relating to their egg-laying abilities and how friendly they are. In a new study ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Chicken Evolution Their ancestors are giant dinosaurs but they ended up as birds… that can barely fly. Chickens sure have reasons to be angry! But it’s all ...