A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in Japan and China has found evidence of goose domestication in China approximately 7,000 years ago. In their paper published in Proceedings ...

It is often argued that taming wildlife and keeping them in captivity was our most consequential accomplishment because these animals provided a steady and secure source of critically important ...

Geese could have been bred to compensate for a reduction in birds from spring to autumn, according to researchers. Pixabay A new study has found geese in China might have been the first birds ...

What came first to human households — the goose or the chicken? A group of researchers says the former. The goose may be the oldest domesticated poultry in the world’s history, with evidence from ...

Ancient goose bones from in a village in China strongly suggest that geese were domesticated 7,000 years ago, which could make geese the first poultry species to be domesticated. Today, poultry is ...

Move over, chickens—there’s a new candidate for oldest domesticated poultry, and it says, “honk!” Humans have long raised birds in order to consume their meat and eggs, and use their feathers.

Which came first, the chicken or the goose? That’s what scientists studying 7,000-year-old goose bones were trying to figure out.