• Question: What do you think came first, the chicken or the egg???

    Asked by 296mutg23 to Emma, Monica, Sebastian, Sinead, Thomas on 14 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Sebastian Gornik

      Sebastian Gornik answered on 14 Nov 2016:


      Haha, good one! Tricky to answer.

      A really good article can be read here:

      Now You Know: Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?

      From this article:

      Eggs, generally speaking, existed before chickens did. The oldest fossils of dinosaur eggs and embryos are about 190 million years old. Archaeopteryx fossils, which are the oldest generally accepted as birds, are around 150 million years old, which means that birds in general came after eggs in general.

    • Photo: Emma Roycroft

      Emma Roycroft answered on 14 Nov 2016:


      The DNA!

    • Photo: Sinead Loughran

      Sinead Loughran answered on 14 Nov 2016:


      That’s one for the next pub quiz!

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