The trash costume will produce the biggest guffaws: the featherless chicken finds himself adorned with a fork, a scrap of printed paper, a lovely ink curlicue, all topped off with a soup can hat.

It takes a lot of pluck (arrrgggh) to mess with Mother Nature, but once they’ve conquered the featherless chicken, I hope the noble food scientists keep going. They’ve only scratched the surface.

In May 2002, an Israeli geneticist developed a cost-effective, featherless chicken. Avigdor Cahaner of Hebrew University maintained that these chickens would grow faster in hot weather because ...

The news has been filled recently with stories of scientists in Israel who have selectively bred a featherless chicken that is supposed to fare better in warm climates and save meat processors ...

Arts & Culture Featherless Chickens and the Reptilian Brain The folks behind “Massive Change” think they’re designing utopia. But they don’t seem to understand the people who’d live there.

The intimate animal portraits, which feature everything from a featherless chicken to a pair of affectionate chimpanzees, are meant to illuminate the similarities between animal poses, gestures ...

This featherless chicken has been developed by Avigdor Cahaner, a professor of quantitative genetics at Israel's Hebrew University school of agriculture. Cahaner hopes that his new bird can be ...

Four gorgeous and ghostly-looking snow leopards. Rocky the Siberian tiger and Henry the featherless chicken. The world’s largest rodent, a Cuban crocodile and five flamingos from Michael Jackson ...

JERUSALEM -- Seedless watermelon was one thing, but a featherless chicken? An Israeli researcher is growing bald birds that will stay cool in the sultry Middle East and other hot regions. The less ...

Rescued featherless chickens now have their own JUMPERS dubbed the chi-kini The Raystede Centre for Animal Welfare in Sussex is urging people to help them cloth the latest rescued chickens ...