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

    Asked by cheese2000 to Faye, Martin, Mus, Pete on 1 May 2012.
    • Photo: Pete Etchells

      Pete Etchells answered on 1 May 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 or 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.

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