It’s well established that today’s chickens are descended from the red junglefowl, a still-living species of wild bird. But ...
The chicken’s wild progenitor is the red junglefowl, Gallus gallus, according to a theory advanced by Charles Darwin and recently confirmed by DNA analysis. The bird’s resemblance to modern ...
Wildlife experts believe the chickens roaming Key West are descended from a fowl native to Cuba known as the red junglefowl. Early settlers to Key West brought chickens to the island in the 1820s.