The chicken, no, the egg, no. Thus the debate has generated confusion among many people. Although it may seem like a tricky question, according to science, there is a logical explanation for what came first. We have all been through logic; most of us end up in the same place. According to science, the answer to the question is that the egg came first. Birds, including chickens, evolved from species that laid hard-shelled eggs. Although the enigma of the egg has been partially solved, the complexity of nature and the connection between species throughout history is revealed.
Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?
The first chicken would have been born from a hard-shelled egg laid by an ancestral species. However, researchers warn that the story is more complex, since the first archosaurs, like dinosaurs, housed their young inside their bellies until they were ready to be born. Many, many moons ago, there was a bird that looked like this bird. It was genetically similar to a chicken, but not yet a full-fledged chicken. Then the proto-chicken laid an egg and the proto-rooster fertilized it. But when mom and dad’s genes almost merged, they combined in a new way, creating a mutation that accidentally made the baby different from her parents.
That is, two birds created a chicken egg and therefore we have an answer: the egg came first. The research shows how oviparous reproduction existed in ancient times and how birds evolved from species that laid hard-shelled eggs.
This story was written in Spanish by Perla Vallejo in Ecoosfera
