2006-07-09 04:55:32 · 19 answers · asked by pudd269 3 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
A chicken and an egg are lying in bed.
The chicken is leaning against the headboard smoking a cigarette, with
a satisfied smile on it's face.
The egg, looking a bit pissed off, grabs the sheet, rolls over, and
says, "Well, I guess we finally answered THAT question.
2006-07-09 05:03:34 · answer #1 · answered by Shea 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If the egg is defined structurally as the hard shelled thing, and the chicken a feather covered animal, the answer is still simple. Evolutionary scientists believe the first hard shell egg was the amniotic egg laid around 300 million years ago, and was laid by the animal who was the link between amphibians and reptiles. One of the first dinosaurs that we know had feathers was the Archaeopteryx, and came much later. Modern birds would not arise until 150 million years ago, descending from theropod dinosaurs.
In this case, the first chicken must have been the mutated offspring of a proto-chicken that laid the egg containing the first true chicken. In any case, this creature hatched from a recognizable egg. After all, the question is purposefully ambiguous -- it is not, "Which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?"
2006-07-09 05:08:58 · answer #2 · answered by ii_classy_ii 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg, but it wasn't a chicken egg.
Evolution occurs when genetic properties are being strengthened in the parent's child. When the ancestor of the chicken layed an egg, it was not a chicken egg. Because of minuscule genetic modifications the bred bird became a chicken and hence the egg was not a chicken egg, but an egg of the ancestor of a chicken. The question to ask is: "When do we speak of a chicken and when not?" Genetic modifications happen so fluently and smoothly that it is hard to assume the transition from one species to another.
2006-07-09 05:04:13 · answer #3 · answered by stevevil0 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people eat eggs for breakfast and chickens for dinner so I guess the egg was laid by the chicken you had for dinner last night. So in answer to your question the answer is Nolan Ryan with 7 no-hitters
2006-07-09 05:11:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Egg - there were other egg-laying animals before there were chickens.
Just chicken-wise - The Chicken because God made it.
2006-07-09 06:39:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
egg , whatever the chicken evolved from had to lay the first chicken egg before the chicken spieces could exist.
2006-07-09 04:59:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
egg from a chicken like bird. The egg hatched the first chicken.
The dinosaurs laid eggs.
2006-07-09 04:58:51 · answer #7 · answered by Texas Cowboy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
egg. the science people proved that first chicken had born by a egg ( my grammar is incorrect )
2006-07-09 05:09:32 · answer #8 · answered by MK 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
egg because to have have chicken they have to be born in a egg
2006-07-09 04:57:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg. It was laid by whatever bird the chicken mutated from.
2006-07-09 04:58:06 · answer #10 · answered by Guelph 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋