CHICKEN & EGG RIDDLE IS CRACKED
Daily Star Sunday|November 10, 2024
Boffs: Hens came second
AARON TINNEY
CHICKEN & EGG RIDDLE IS CRACKED

BOFFINS have solved the mystery of which came first, the chicken or the egg.

They reckon eggs were here way before hens appeared.

Scientists from Geneva University in Switzerland say the genetic tools to create eggs existed hundreds of millions of years before birds.

This story is from the November 10, 2024 edition of Daily Star Sunday.

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