what came first, the chicken or the egg???

[jammiedodger]

iv always wondered about this one, was the egg first and therefore hatched the chicken or was the chicken first and therefore laid the egg??? confusing.....

[dot.hawkes]

see you've taken up my previous suggestion, good call.

[suzyangel]

Just proven to be the egg. I am a mine of crap and useless info!

[Goodsoulette]

An egg and a chicken are lying in bed.

The egg is smoking a fag and the chicken has a frost expression on her face.

The chicken pipes up " well I guess it answered that then!"

[silver_fox]

well according to this - it was the egg!!

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_ id=23408

WARNING - a bit gross!!

A xXx

[Quizmonster]

Most scientists believe that birds developed from reptiles. Since most reptiles to this day reproduce by laying eggs, it's rational to assume that the first bird-like creature came from an egg, too. (Genetic material remains constant throughout life, so the first creature that evolved into what we would consider to be a bird must have originally existed as an embryo inside an egg.) It would then have laid eggs and - over millions of years, perhaps - birds as we know them slowly developed and produced different species. The present-day chicken is one of these, but - 'way back when - its great-great-grand-daddy almost certainly came from an egg.
The egg pre-dated the bird, if you believe in evolution. Of course, fundamentalist believers in the Bible will say that God created all the creatures as creatures. In that case, the bird pre-dated the egg. Take your pick!

[Scylax]

A chicken is an egg's method of reproducing
itself.

[Neilzulu1]

thanks silver - fox you have put me off eggs for ever