Evolutionary biologists turn back the clock on chickens to determine how they got their beaks -- and possibly make them look more badass. CNET freelancer Danny Gallagher has contributed to Cracked.com ...

Biologists have created chicken embryos with dinosaur-like faces by successfully replicating the molecular process that made dinosaur snouts evolve into bird beaks. A team of researchers, led by ...

The interrupted gene expression pathways are involved in transforming birds’ premaxillae—facial bones that for part of the upper jaw in most vertebrates—into myriad beak forms in about 10,000 species ...

Researchers led by Bhart-Anjan Bhullar, a paleontologist and developmental biologist at Yale University and developmental biologist Arhat Abzhanov at Harvard University reverted the beaks of chicken ...

This week I went to pick up 20 new chickens from an older gentleman in our area that raises them in a sprawling red brick building. He was so kind that when I looked at the chickens and saw they ...

An artist’s rendition of the non-avian dinosaur Anchiornis and a tinamou, a primitive modern bird, depicted with transparent snouts. By John Conway Modern birds evolved from a group of small ...