It’s one thing to eat chicken every day. But a group of scientists argue in a new essay published Wednesday in the journal Royal Society Open Science that this is exactly how our time on Earth will be marked, by leftover chicken bones. We live in the Age of the Chicken. There are about 23 billion chickens on Earth at any given time, at least ten times more than any other bird, forty times the number of sparrows. The combined mass of those 23 billion chickens is greater than that of all the other birds on Earth.

Source: New York Times December 12, 2018 00:01 UTC