Chickens are abundant, but misunderstood creatures. Let's explore and debunk some of the most common chicken myths.

Growing up, when I saw balut and penoy on the kitchen table, I knew that my mother’s relatives from Pateros had come to visit. Balut and penoy are cooked fertilized duck eggs, the former has a ...

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally ...

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another question ...

Crack the truth about eggs! From cholesterol myths to fresh vs. old, clear up common misconceptions about these breakfast ...

The first mice to be created from two fathers, a phenomenon known as androgenesis, have now produced healthy offspring for the first time. Researchers implanted two sperm in an egg with its nucleus ...

A once-extinct bird has laid eggs in the wild for the first time in nearly 40 years. After returning to the wild in 2024, the endangered Sihek bird is now laying wild eggs in its new Hawaii home.

The first wild eggs of an endangered bird have been laid for the first time in almost four decades, and the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden helped to play a role!

Dyeing eggs as part of the Easter celebration goes back at least as far as the Middle Ages, and perhaps earlier. Some 47 percent of Americans are, ...

Vaccines could be a key means of suppressing bird flu and avoiding the slaughter of millions of chickens, which is blamed for soaring egg prices.

Sky-high egg prices have drawn renewed attention to the bird flu outbreak, which has caused more than 166 million wild and domestic birds in the U.S. to die since it began.