• Question: what came first chicken or the egg

    Asked by spursboy to Faye, Martin, Mus, Pete on 27 Apr 2012. This question was also asked by cheese2000.
    • Photo: Pete Etchells

      Pete Etchells answered on 27 Apr 2012:

      Great question! The technical answer is the egg, because reptiles lay eggs, and from an evolutionary point of view they are much older than chickens.

      If the question is whether chickens of chicken eggs came first, then I think the answer must be the chicken – there could have been ancient forms of chicken that could reproduce without making eggs as we think of them today.

    • Photo: Faye Didymus

      Faye Didymus answered on 29 Apr 2012:

      Hi again spursboy. Stricly speaking the egg had to come first!

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