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

    Asked by MildaG to Adrian, Iroise, Joe, Rachel, Ria on 9 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Joe Bathelt

      Joe Bathelt answered on 9 Nov 2016:


      Well, technically the egg, because dinosaurs produced eggs before chicken evolved.

    • Photo: Adrian Chu

      Adrian Chu answered on 9 Nov 2016:


      You can argue that the egg came first. As the video explains, millennia ago a pair of proto-chicken made a fertilized egg which recombined the parents’ genes into a new species – the first ever chicken.

    • Photo: Ria Vaportzis

      Ria Vaportzis answered on 10 Nov 2016:


      Depends on how you see it 🙂

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