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The domesticated chicken, Gallus gallus domesticus, is the most numerous domestic animal and a preferred source of animal protein. Chicken domestication has been thought (based on traditional measures ...

Charles Darwin maintained that the domesticated chicken derives from the red jungle fowl, but new research from Uppsala University now shows that the wild origins of the chicken are more complicated ...

The first chicken to ever cross the road was likely in Southeast Asia, new research has revealed. Despite the prevalence of chickens -- they outnumber all other birds on the planet with approximately ...