It’s well established that today’s chickens are descended from the red junglefowl, a still-living species of wild bird. But there’s long been a fierce academic debate about when and how ...

Did they descend from red jungle fowl that Polynesians brought to Hawaii some 1,000 years ago or from farmed birds that flew the coop more recently? According to genetic tests, a mix of both ...

A chicken resting on a chair at Engoyi village in the Oshikoto Region. Unlike other birds, chickens are not bred to fly. Domesticated chickens descend from ...