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"You wouldn't laugh so hard if you knew who my great-great-great-great-great-great-uncle was!" ebnt-photo, Flickr What do chickens have in common with that terrible lizard, Tyrannosaurus rex? Very little, you might think. You wouldn't keep a bunch of T-rexes in a coop in your backyard even if you could, and when was the last time you ran screaming in terror from an approaching Rhode Island Red? Yet genetic connections show that our favorite fowl are a lot more similar to those prehistoric predators than we might realize. The Huffington Post put together a gallery showing this and several other unexpected evolutions that closely link seemingly unrelated species. Wanna know what you have in ...

"Finger, yum!. Wait, are you pointing at something?" Photo: CJ Sorg/Flickr If your dog stares at the end of your outstretched finger rather than directing her focus on where you're pointing, her breed may be to blame. A Hungarian scientist found that dogs bred to work in visual contact with humans, such as pointers, retrievers and sheep dogs, were quick to understand the meaning of a human's pointing finger, reports Science Daily. Hunting hounds, livestock guard dogs, pups used for underground hunting, and sled dogs weren't so hot at the finger-pointing test. Why is this? Dogs were domesticated more than 10,000 years ago, and have been living and working with people ever since. During ...