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11 wrz 2023 · Yes, chickens and all modern birds share an evolutionary ancestry with dinosaurs. Specifically, they are believed to have evolved from a group of dinosaurs known as theropods, a group of bipedal, carnivorous dinosaurs that included renowned species such as Velociraptors and the Tyrannosaurus rex.
The earliest fossil bones identified as possibly belonging to chickens appear in sites from northeastern China dating to around 5400 B.C., but the birds’ wild ancestors never lived in those...
2 kwi 2024 · Here we show that chickens were widely raised across southern Central Asia from the fourth century BC through medieval periods, likely dispersing along the ancient Silk Road.
21 sty 2021 · Here, we conducted a large-scale population genetics study on the diversity of red junglefowl (279 individuals from 12 populations) and indigenous chicken populations (138 chickens from 10 ...
12 lut 2020 · Our study reveals a polyphyletic origin of domestic chicken diversity with the Red junglefowl as the main ancestor and subsequent introgression from the Grey, Ceylon, and Green junglefowls. These findings provide new insights into the domestication and evolutionary history of the species.
6 cze 2022 · In 2020, a study of 863 living chickens’ genomes confirmed that the jungle fowl Gallus gallus spaedicus subspecies was the ancestor of living chickens; chickens share more of their DNA with that subspecies than other types of jungle fowl.
8 cze 2022 · But before there were domesticated chickens, humans became acquainted with their wild ancestors: red junglefowl (Gallus gallus) from Southeast Asia, where the birds carved out a niche eating...
