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Building a dinosaur from a chicken by Jack Horner
Articles on chickens (not in any particular order - most recently discovered first)
Here’s what happens when you rewind the clock on chicken domestication - Elizabeth Pennisi, sciencemag.org (2015)
The tamer birds grew faster, laid larger eggs, and were bossier than their more fearful counterparts. "Low-fear [birds] seem to be developing the traits we want in domestication," Larson says.
Ancestors of chickens studied for conservation - Economic times (2008)
“The ancestors of domestic chickens and poultry are being conserved and studied by scientists in case the domestic birds are eradicated by outbreak of diseases like bird flu.”
The furcula or wishbone - Wikipedia
“The furcula ("little fork" in Latin) or wishbone is a forked bone found in birds and some other species of dinosaurs, and is formed by the fusion of the two clavicles.”
How did the chicken, a shy, flight-impaired forest bird, migrate around the globe? - Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian (2016)
"Chickens are native to the tropical jungles of Southeast Asia, but over the last approximately 8,000 years, chickens have been domesticated and spread around the globe to become one of the most valued domesticated animals."
