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 ...

The forest department has started a breeding centre for red junglefowl in Jambughoda, where these fowl have already started laying eggs. Once their numbers grow in the next few months, hundreds of ...

It’s well established that today’s chickens are descended from the red junglefowl, a still-living species of wild bird. But ...