Chicken or Egg Riddle Possibly Answered


	Chicken or Egg Riddle Possibly Answered

addledlibrarian

11-14-2008 11:58 AM

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11-15-2008 9:50 AM

carrerinyes

At last we can put this to rest

11-22-2008 11:39 AM

Jorjor

This is something I've known for a long time.

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A rare fossilized dinosaur nest helps answer the conundrum of which came first, the <SPAN id="lw_1226681690_0" class="yshortcuts">chicken or the egg</SPAN>, two paleontologists say. 
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The answer? 
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Well, it's still unclear whether chicken eggs or chickens came first (the intended question in the original riddle), said Darla Zelenitsky, a paleontologist of the <SPAN id="lw_1226681690_6" class="yshortcuts">University of Calgary</SPAN> in Alberta who was the first scientist to closely analyze the dinosaur nest. 
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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. 
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"The egg came before the chicken," Zelenitsky said. "Chickens evolved well after the meat-eating dinosaurs that laid these eggs." 
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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 <SPAN id="lw_1226681690_7" class="yshortcuts">North America</SPAN> in favor of the bird-like egg over the chicken. 
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