The following is an encore presentation of everything everywhere daily.

Around 10,000 years ago, someone in Southeast Asia captured a bird that lived on the floor of the jungle.

Today, billions of descendants of that bird now live on six different continents

and provide food for billions of people.

Yet the birds which exist today are often very different from the ones which were domesticated over 10 millennia ago.

And much of that change has occurred in just the last 70 years.

Learn more about the chicken and how they became one of the most common birds in the world on

this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. People say us cats have it easy, but it's not all sunshine and catnip.

I mean, someone's got to maintain unbroken eye contact while you're in the bath.

So after a long hard day my human better bring me

a delicious bowl of whiskers. I'm talking to you Kevin. It's almost per o'clock.

Don't let me down.

Whiskers per moor.

In 2005, a paleontologist working in Montana found the bones of a 68 million year old Tyrannosaurus

Rex.

Inside one of the bones, he found something which was very rare.

He found a small piece of a blood vessel.

Soft tissue is almost never found inside fossilized bones.

After a chemical analysis of the protein in the tissue, they found something extraordinary.

The closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurus rex is the chicken.

So if you ever want to tell your kids to eat their chicken or their eggs,

just tell them it's a Tyrannosaurus rex.

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