Everybody can go home now. Scientists finally know which came first, the chicken or the egg. The answer: the egg.
In a blog post, American radio journalist Robert Krulwich explains that long before chickens existed, two chicken-like birds mated and laid an egg. But when these two animals’ genes fused, “They combined in a new way, creating a mutation that accidentally made the baby different from its parents.”
What hatched from that egg was a new species: the chicken.
So now that we’ve solved that puzzle, let’s move on to the next: Just how does one peel the perfect hard-boiled egg?
Also in today’s news:
UT President Randy Boyd visited Red Bank High School yesterday morning to talk to students about the University of Tennessee system’s free college program.
And here’s a list of the states that have the highest numbers of guns per capita.