100 Sleepy Facts About Chickens | The Dinosaur in Your Backyard

Tonight we look closely at the most overlooked animal on Earth. The chicken sees four colours where you see three. It hears below the floor of human hearing. It carries iron in its beak that responds to the magnetic field of the planet. It lies to impress a mate. It knows every face in the yard. And its collagen — pulled from a 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus femur — reads closer to a chicken than to anything else alive. Over the next two hours we travel through 100 quiet facts: through its senses, its language, its social world, the 24-hour darkness in which an egg is built, the voice calling from inside a shell, and the long road back through rice fields in ancient Thailand to a warm world of dinosaurs. No advertisements. No sudden sounds. Just a soft voice and a slow journey into sleep. If you drift off somewhere in the middle — that is exactly what this is for. 🌙 Subscribe for more sleepy science:   / @cosmiclullaby-z6h   📚 SOURCES Marino, L. (2017) "Thinking chickens" — Animal Cognition Garnham & Løvlie (2018) "Sophisticated Fowl" — Behavioral Sciences Organ et al. (2008) "Molecular Phylogenetics of Mastodon and T. rex" — Science Peters et al. (2022) "The biocultural origins and dispersal of domestic chickens" — PNAS Edgar et al. (2011), University of Bristol — maternal empathy in hens Nys et al. (2021) "Avian eggshell biomineralization" — BMC Molecular and Cell Biology #sleepscience #relaxingfacts #fallasleepfast