11-14-2008, 10:47 AM
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Which Came First? Eggs Before Chickens, Scientists Now Say
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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 University of Calgary in Alberta who was the first scientist to closely analyze the dinosaur nest.
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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http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/...ientistsnowsay
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11-14-2008, 10:52 AM
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Weak. Scientists are so literal...
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11-14-2008, 10:56 AM
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I see the University of Calgary continues to do top notch research
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11-14-2008, 10:56 AM
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Geeeeeeeks
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11-14-2008, 10:57 AM
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11-14-2008, 10:58 AM
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Good thing tuition has gone up so much, gotta pay for cutting edge research like this.
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11-14-2008, 11:01 AM
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Other fascinating tidbits:
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A government model projected that all U.S. adults will be overweight by 2048; doctors warned of a coming plague of superlice; and endocrine scientists hoped to establish whether New Jersey causes cancer.
Australian aboriginal children who are ignorant of numbers and have no use for counting can nevertheless count.
Researchers observed that sleeping deer and grazing cows generally align their bodies along the earth’s north–south magnetic axis.
Vegetarianism leads to brain shrinkage.
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source: http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/11/0082281
Science: what can't it study?
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11-14-2008, 01:17 PM
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Scoring Winger
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The chicken is the egg's way of reproducing itself.
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11-14-2008, 02:11 PM
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If all New Jersey causes is cancer, I think New York will be very, very relieved.
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11-14-2008, 02:33 PM
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Pfft. Scienctists. What do they know? 
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11-14-2008, 03:18 PM
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They got it wrong. God made the chicken and the chicken made the egg 
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11-14-2008, 03:59 PM
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I'm in that same department at the University... and I have never heard about this. To be honest, I think paleontology is whack!
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11-14-2008, 04:17 PM
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Ok then... which came first the dinosaur or the egg?
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11-14-2008, 05:40 PM
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Haven't we known that dinosaurs laid eggs for a long, long time? Like, since someone found the first dinosaur egg fossil? Haven't we also known that dinosaurs roamed the Earth long before chickens?
How is this in any way new information?
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11-14-2008, 06:33 PM
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Originally Posted by getbak
How is this in any way new information?
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It's not.
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Originally Posted by Buff
Ok then... which came first the dinosaur or the egg?
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The amphibian egg. 
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11-14-2008, 10:31 PM
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Originally Posted by REDVAN
I'm in that same department at the University... and I have never heard about this. To be honest, I think paleontology is whack!
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I was in the same department at the University too and I have never heard of Darla Zelenitsky. She must be new.
Seriously though, I don't see what the news is here. You mean the amniotic egg predates the origin of birds? What a shocker!
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