Did eggs come before dinosaurs?

The age-old riddle has finally been settled. Eggs are much older than chickens. Dinosaurs laid eggs, the fish that first crawled out of the sea laid eggs, and the weird articulated monsters that swam in the warm shallow seas of the Cambrian Period 500 million years ago also laid eggs.

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Did dinosaurs come from an egg?

As far as we know, all dinosaurs reproduced by laying eggs, as do most other sauropsids (reptiles). It is very difficult to determine what species of dinosaur laid the eggs that have been discovered, because only a few dinosaur embryos have been found inside the fossil eggs.

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What came before the egg?

Eggs come from chickens and chickens come from eggs: that's the basis of this ancient riddle. But eggs – which are just female sex cells – evolved more than a billion years ago, whereas chickens have been around for just 10,000 years. So the riddle is easily solved…or is …

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Which came first dinosaurs or chickens?

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."

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What was the first egg on earth?

If the question refers to eggs in general, the egg came first. The first amniote egg—that is, a hard-shelled egg that could be laid on land, rather than remaining in water like the eggs of fish or amphibians—appeared around 312 million years ago.

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Scientists Now Know Which Came First: The Chicken or The Egg

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Who ate the 1st egg?

Who Ate The First Egg? People have been eating eggs for a very long time— about six million years! The first people to eat eggs took them from nests in the wild and ate the eggs raw. There is no way to know who ate the first egg.

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What came first Aussie egg or fossil egg?

The Fossil Egg is a limited legendary egg in Adopt Me! that could be purchased for 750. It was released on October 10, 2020, replacing the Aussie Egg. It was also replaced by the Ocean Egg on April 16, 2021. The Fossil Egg is no longer obtainable and can now only be obtained through trading.

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What was alive before the dinosaurs?

Plant life consisted mostly of ferns, conifers and small shrubs. Animals included sharks, bony fish, arthropods, amphibians, reptiles and synapsids. The first true mammals would not appear until the next geological period, the Triassic.

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Did the T. rex evolved into a chicken?

Fossil studies have long suggested modern birds were descended from T. rex, based in similarities in their skeletons. Now, bits of protein obtained from connective tissues in a T. rex fossil shows a relationship to birds including chickens and ostriches, according to a report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.

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Is chicken related to T. rex?

The closest living relatives of Tyrannosaurus rex are birds such as chickens and ostriches, according to research published today in Science (and promptly reported in the New York Times). Paleontologists used material discovered in a chance find in 2003 to pin down the link.

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Who was born before egg or chicken?

Back to our original question: with amniotic eggs showing up roughly 340 million or so years ago, and the first chickens evolving at around 58 thousand years ago at the earliest, it's a safe bet to say the egg came first. Eggs were around way before chickens even existed.

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What comes first egg or chicken Bible?

After all, understanding the question based strictly on Genesis, the chicken would come first.

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Did the T Rex lay eggs?

rex parents cared for their young before or after they hatched. No T. rex eggs or nests have ever been found, but fossils of other Tyrannosaur relatives suggest that they laid elongated eggs, roughly 20 or more at a time.

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Have dinosaur eggs been found in Australia?

Dinosaur eggs have been found at over 200 places around the world including fossil sites in the USA, China, France, Argentina and India. But no eggs have been found in Australia - so start looking! This little one is hidden in the Dinosaurs exhibition now on at the Australian Museum.

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Did dinosaurs give live birth?

Scientists have uncovered the first evidence of live births in the group of animals that includes dinosaurs, crocodiles and birds.

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What is the closest living thing to a dinosaur?

In fact, birds are commonly thought to be the only animals around today that are direct descendants of dinosaurs. So next time you visit a farm, take a moment to think about it. All those squawking chickens are actually the closest living relatives of the most incredible predator the world has ever known!

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What dinosaur did dogs evolve from?

Leptocyon. Among the earliest ancestors of modern dogs, various species of Leptocyon roamed the plains and woodlands of North America for a whopping 25 million years, making this small, foxlike animal one of the most successful mammalian genera of all time.

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What is the closest bird to a dinosaur?

While all birds are descended from dinosaurs, the mysterious cassowary is thought to be more similar to ancient dinosaurs than most other birds. Large bodied with fierce claws, these flightless birds also have casques, a helmet-like structure atop the head, which many dinosaurs are believed to have had.

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Who ruled Earth before dinosaurs?

For approximately 120 million years—from the Carboniferous to the middle Triassic periods—terrestrial life was dominated by the pelycosaurs, archosaurs, and therapsids (the so-called "mammal-like reptiles") that preceded the dinosaurs.

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Who ruled Earth after dinosaurs?

Mammals: After the extinction, mammals came to dominate the land. An early relative of all primates, including humans, survived the extinction. Snakes: Although a number of snake species died out around 65 million years ago, snakes as a group survived.

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Did humans exist after dinosaurs?

No! After the dinosaurs died out, nearly 65 million years passed before people appeared on Earth. However, small mammals (including shrew-sized primates) were alive at the time of the dinosaurs.

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What egg was before the Aussie?

Fandom. what was the egg before aussie egg? Farm Egg.

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What egg did the Aussie Egg replace?

The Aussie Egg is a limited legendary egg in Adopt Me! that was released on February 29, 2020, and replaced the Farm Egg. It left on October 10, 2020, and was replaced by the Fossil Egg. It cost 750 and could be found in the Gumball Machine in the Nursery.

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Did farm eggs come before Aussie?

The Aussie Egg is the second limited egg that is able to hatch into a common pet, after the Farm Egg.

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