there's got to be an answer to the riddle hasn't there??
2006-09-06 23:15:22 · 47 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
The Egg of the first chicken was laid by the very last ancestor of the chicken (I dunno what it was, but let's call it the cave-chicken)
The Cave-Chicken laid an egg. When it hatched, it seemed to be a mutated cave-chicken, a little different from the rest of the clutch. This "Chicken" had better survival traits, and so survived longer to mate more, producing more of these "chickens". The Cave-Chicken died out, as it was not as successful as this new "chicken".
Hence, the Egg came first.
2006-09-06 23:30:03 · answer #1 · answered by genghis41f 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
But the chicken came from an egg
2006-09-06 23:17:42 · answer #2 · answered by Angel D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DINA, you've really not thought this through, where did the chicken came from? The truth is that the egg came 1st because some dinosaurs hatched from eggs, way before the days of chickens.
2006-09-06 23:19:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Egg. Because genetic material does not change during an animal's life.
Therefore the first bird that evolved into what we would call a chicken, probably in prehistoric times, must have first existed as an embryo inside an egg.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/05/26/chicken.egg/
Gimme 10 :)
2006-09-06 23:26:33 · answer #4 · answered by XMan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isn't this a case of creation vs evolution?
Evolution: Egg came first, laid by a chicken like bird.
Creation: Chicken was created, which went on to lay eggs
So the choice is yours
2006-09-06 23:18:47 · answer #5 · answered by All the answers 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends which chicken. I had a chicken call Brian and I saw him hatching from the egg. Therefore in this instance the egg came first.
But when I was knocking about in prehistoric times I saw a chicken just appear from nowhere. I called him Terrence.
2006-09-06 23:23:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg. The amniotic egg precedes the chicken, in terms of evolutionary biology. No one ever said that the egg was a chicken egg. :)
2006-09-06 23:19:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg layed by a dinosaur which became a chicken afterwards
2006-09-07 02:02:51 · answer #8 · answered by Olga V 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Egg was a meteor and it happen to hatch!!! Then a chicken came out!!!!! And he layed even more eggs and now there taking over the world!!!!!!
2006-09-07 01:21:58 · answer #9 · answered by Alex 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah there has but no one seems to believe my answer so we keep getting the question over and over again the chicken came from outa space it arrived in a space ship then the shock of landing on the earth caused it to lay an egg
2006-09-06 23:26:01 · answer #10 · answered by kj 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋