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Proof humans reshaped the world? Chickens

The modern broiler chicken's origins are in the jungles of Southeast Asia, where its forebear, the red junglefowl (Gallus gallus), was first domesticated some 8,000 years ago.

Today, there are some 33 billion of the flightless birds worldwide at any given time, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision

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PARIS - When aliens or our distant progeny sift through layers of sediment 500,000 years from now to decode the Earth's past, they will find unusual

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