• Question: What came first? The chicken? Or the egg?

    Asked by ladysovereignezza to David, Luna, Mark, Melanie, Probash on 22 Mar 2011 in Categories: .
    • Photo: David Pyle

      David Pyle answered on 20 Mar 2011:

      The egg. Reptiles were laying eggs long before the birds evolved..

    • Photo: Melanie Stefan

      Melanie Stefan answered on 21 Mar 2011:

      As David said in the live chat the other day, eggs have been around for far longer than chicken 🙂

    • Photo: Luna Munoz

      Luna Munoz answered on 21 Mar 2011:

      The egg came first, but not from a “chicken” creature. Just a thought.

    • Photo: Mark Vesey

      Mark Vesey answered on 22 Mar 2011:

      No idea sorry!

    • Photo: Probash Chowdhury

      Probash Chowdhury answered on 22 Mar 2011:

      The chicken must have evolved from another type of bird. That bird (or others before it) probably started laying eggs before the chicken so technically the egg came before the chicken – and since birds came from reptiles (which laid eggs before birds) the egg came first!

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