• Question: what came first the chicken or the egg

    Asked by to Ruth, Gemma, Ekbal, Andrei on 16 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Gemma Marsden answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      Hi townsleyi amd ninjatayl007,

      This is a great question and one that has been perplexing scientists for as long as there have been scientists!
      This really depends whether the egg is an egg laid by a chicken or it is an egg containing a chicken?
      Egg laying animals have existed long before chickens so if we are just talking about an egg and a chicken then the egg came first!
      It gets more complicated if we are talking about a chicken egg…. the substance which allows the egg shell to form is only found in chickens so without a chicken, a chicken egg can’t form.
      It is possible that mutations may have occured when prototype chickens produced off spring which led eventually to chickens as we know it. BUT even then a chicken would have had to develop in an egg! So the EGG came first.
      Gemma

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      Ekbal Hussain answered on 25 Jun 2014:

      Hey guys!

      I was just watching some videos on the internet and came across this really cool video answering your question.

      I love these guys. I’m thinking of doing something similar to explain science too!

      Ekbal

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