Which Came First? Eggs Before Chickens, Scientists Now Say

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haha i knew it and told you ppl last year! ok ok im being smug for no reason, but its still fun! "A rare fossilized dinosaur nest helps answer the conundrum of which came first, the chicken or the egg, two paleontologists say. The small carnivorous dinosaur sat over her nest of eggs some 77 million years ago, along a sandy river beach. When water levels rose, Mom seems to have fled, leaving the unhatched offspring. Some characteristics of the nest are shared with birds, and our analysis can tell us how far back in time these features, such as brooding, nest building, and eggs with a pointed end, evolved - partial answers to the old question of which came first, the chicken or the egg," said researcher Francois Therrien, curator of dinosaur paleoecology at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta, Canada. ...interpreted literally, the answer to the riddle is clear. Dinosaurs were forming bird-like nests and laying bird-like eggs long before birds (including chickens) evolved from dinosaurs. "The egg came before the chicken," Zelenitsky said. "Chickens evolved well after the meat-eating dinosaurs that laid these eggs." http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081114/sc_livescience/whichcamefirsteggsbeforechickensscientistsnowsay;_ylt=Akj99.1sRZwrVyCSvKLcCHUiANEA so i guess the new question IS "Which came first? the Chicken or the CHICKEN EGG? hmm..yeah i dont know that one LOL!