Geese have a reputation for being one of the more aggressive breeds of birds kept as livestock, Chickens can be friendly and ducks can be easy going—but geese have not forgotten that they were once ...

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.

A team of international researchers, led by Associate Professor Masaki Eda of the Hokkaido University Museum, have discovered that the oldest type of poultry ever domesticated may have been geese. The ...