Scientific name of chicken: The common chicken, which is one of the most widespread and domesticated animals in the world, has an interesting place in biological classification. Recent estimates say ...

Red Junglefowl - Gallus gallus tropical bird in the family Phasianidae. It is the primary progenitor of the domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).© Martin Pelanek/Shutterstock.com Everyone has ...

Scientists today unveil the secrets of the bird that feeds the planet. More than 170 researchers from 49 institutes in 12 countries report in Nature that the completed DNA sequence of Gallus gallus, ...

The age-old question—what came first, the chicken or the egg—has a surprisingly clear answer when viewed through the lens of ...

The contemporary chicken was most probably developed from its main wild ancestor, the red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus), after its domestication in Southeast Asia in 3,200 BC. Over the years, chicken ...

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced that the first draft of the chicken genome sequence has been deposited into free public ...