Some of life’s simplest questions get swept under the rug for a long time—after all, the most widespread phenomena…

Chicken farmers in Tennessee are about to shed a lot of blood. After noticing an unusually high death rate in a flock,…

The existential threat posed by climate change can often obscure the more immediate vulnerabilities that regulatory…

The Ayam Cemani, an all-black bird indigenous to Indonesia, is the most sought-after chicken on the market right now,…

Bolivia has rejected an “offensive” donation of 100,000 chickens from Bill Gates, saying the billionaire philanthropist…

Birds have a quality known as broodiness. It means that, after they lay their eggs, they stick around and take care of…

Sound advice, CDC! But, uh, just why did you guys feel the need to issue this warning in the first place?

“Eyeglasses” for chickens were once sold in the thousands — and they weren’t decorative. Rather, they were the only way…

In the past two weeks, attacks at 16 South Carolina chicken houses have left over 300,000 chickens dead. Farmed…

This hen, a rescue animal taken in by Australia's Manning River Farm Animal Sanctuary, enjoys purring when she's petted…

What's the difference between "Cage Free," "Farm Fresh," and "Free Range"?

Chickens are getting bigger. A lot bigger. A new study charts the growth of the bird to almost 5 times its size from…

We're pretty much settled on birds being dinosaurs, but what would happen if we genetically engineered chickens to be a…

Each summer, public health officials in California make the rounds to "sentinel chickens" in semi-secret locations all…

Frank Reese is a farmer in Kansas who raises breeds of chicken that are dying out, despite their hardiness and…

Despite what you learned in school,there are way more than four states of matter. One possible new one, disordered…

As a nation, the United States consumes a whopping 8 billion chickens every year, and this results in a few mountains'…

An unusual arrangement of particles has been discovered in the cells of chicken eyes. It's the first time scientists…

You already know about the evolutionary areas of overlap between dinosaurs and modern-day birds. Now one group of…