Poultry in motion.

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Why did the chicken cross the Pacific? To get to the other side, in South America. How did it get there? In Polynesian canoes, which apparently arrived at least 100 years before Europeans settled the continent. An international research team reports that it has found the first hard evidence that people other than the Europeans introduced chickens to the New World. Researchers say that bones buried along South America's Pacific coast are from chickens that lived between 1304 and 1424. DNA analysis linked the bones...