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Now, let's fast-forward a bit to examine the chicken's more recent evolutionary history. The modern chicken, as we know it, is descended from several of four known species of wild jungle fowl (Gallus) that inhabited parts of Southeast Asia about 50 million years ago.Scientists believe the red jungle fowl, Gallus gallus, is the most likely progenitor of the modern chicken, although research. 2020-4-4 Fifty years ago, a dozen eggs clocked in at 53 cents for a dozen. The year’s biggest food-related rollouts were the Big Mac and Red Lobster. 1969: 62 cents. As the ‘60s came to a close, a dozen eggs would have cost 62 cents, or about $4.36 in today’s dollars.
A rare fossilized dinosaur nest helps answer the conundrum of which came first, the chicken or the egg, two paleontologists say.The small carnivorous dinosaur sat over her nest of eggs some 77 million years ago, along a sandy river beach. When water levels rose, Mom seems to have fled, leaving the unhatched offspring.Researchers have now studied the fossil nest and at least five partial eggs. The nest is a mound of sand that extends about 1.6 feet (half a meter) across and weighs as much as a small person, or about 110 pounds (50 kg).'
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