Monday, July 12, 2010

Chicken vs. Egg Finally Solved


After finding a fossilized nest paleontologists have made a determination on the chicken-egg conundrum, but having done that, it turns out they have changed the question:
But 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."

So the original riddle might now be rephrased: Which came first, the dinosaur or the egg? Meanwhile, the new nest provides some of the strongest evidence in North America in favor of the bird-like egg over the chicken.
LiveScience

But all of this fails to address the more crucial question: which came first chicken salad, or egg salad?

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