This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Thousands of feral chickens inhabit Kauai, but their origin was long a mystery. Did they descend from red jungle fowl ...
Chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) are believed to have evolved from a subspecies of red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus) about 50 million years ago. The process of domestication, which began between ...