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Is the chicken related to reptiles?

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Anonymous

11y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Technically all living organisms are related. Birds (including chickens) are, however, descended from reptiles. Birds evloved from small, carnivorous dinosaurs in the late Jurassic period.

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