Summary:
- Researchers from the University of Sheffield in the UK have conducted a study that provides evidence for the long-standing question of which came first, the chicken or the egg.
- The study found that the protein necessary for the formation of the egg's shell is only produced by the chicken's ovary, suggesting that the chicken must have existed first in order to produce the egg.
- The findings challenge the traditional view that the egg must have come first, as the chicken would have needed to evolve from a previous species that laid eggs, and provide a scientific explanation for the age-old conundrum.