• Question: what came first the chicken or the egg????

    Asked by alfie11 to Dave, Susana, Ben, Ed, Sam on 24 Jun 2013. This question was also asked by daniel12345, reaganbrien, gonegaming.
    • Photo: David Briggs

      David Briggs answered on 24 Jun 2013:

      The egg.

      Reptiles and fish lay eggs, and they evolved before birds. So the egg.

      Also, you can’t have a chicken without an egg for it to be born from 🙂

    • Photo: Ed Lowe

      Ed Lowe answered on 24 Jun 2013:

      There were egg-laying creatures millions of years before there were chickens, so it was the egg – sorry for the prosaic answer!

      Now, why did the prehistoric egg-laying reptile cross the road? 🙂

    • Photo: Sam Horrell

      Sam Horrell answered on 24 Jun 2013:

      As has been said, its the egg.

      If you imagine the evolutionary line of chickens, the first chickens laid eggs and the birds that hatched from that would be slightly closer to the modern chicken. This continued on until a chicken laid an egg from which hatched what we now know as a chicken. So the Egg.

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