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Using half life and the time you just calculated how old is a chicken fossil?

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Answer: Now that you know how many half-lives have passed for your fossil, you need to multiply your number of half-lives by how many years are in one half-life. This gives you an age of 2 x 5730 = 11,460 years.

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Answer:

66 million years ago

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The age of dinosaurs, has been discovered. The tiny fossil, nicknamed the "wonderchicken," includes a complete skull hidden inside pieces of rock, and dates to more than 66 million years ago.

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