2. Chickens
Since birds are the only dinosaurs still alive, I could make the case for ranking them No. 1 on this list. But they’re second place, and what better bird to enshrine in the pantheon of great dinosaurs than Gallus domesticus, the not-so-humble chicken? Statista estimates that there were nearly 26 billion chickens worldwide in 2021. Talk about coming home to roost—when other dinosaur species faltered, chickens stayed the course. And now, for many, they’re a main course.
