what comes first the egg or the bird????

Answer 1

The chicken because it would have had to warm the egg on order for it to hatch.

Answer 2

There's not supposed to be an answer for "which came first--the chicken or the egg"...

but...from a scientific point of view:
From a cellular biology point of view this question can be answered quite easily. The egg came first because any female sex cell is called an egg.

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?"

Answer 3

This question is one meant to test someone's thinking--a scientist will announce that the egg came first (laid by some pre-bird creature), a religious person will announce that the bird came first (created by some deity), and a normal person will not know which to go with.

Answer 4

The egg. Through evolution the first bird was a mutation that arose out of theropod dinosaurs. This being the case, the egg was laid first.

Answer 5

Both because they bird lays the egg and the bird hatches.

Answer 6

i think the egg came first because i bet one day a new species-birds- hatched out of a bunch of eggs

Answer 7

I say the bird came first because I never heard of an egg laying a bird.

Answer 8

the egg- because eggs evolved a long time before birds did. A reptile laid an egg and evolved eventually to a birdlike reptile laying an egg, to a bird laying an egg :)

Rhetorical questions don't work with scientists.

Answer 9

Probably the egg. . . the bird's inside it.

Answer 10

a single celled organism came first then EVOLOUTION took place over millions of years not 6-7 thousand if your talking about 1 generation the egg came first :)