Chromosphaera perkinsii, a billion-year-old species, may reveal multicellularity’s origins, predating the chicken and egg.

Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of its presence on Earth have been dated at over a billion years, well before ...

The question of whether the chicken or the egg came first has puzzled philosophers, scientists, and the general public for ...

Nature would therefore have possessed the genetic tools to 'create eggs' long before it 'invented chickens ... persist for around a third of their life cycle and comprise at least two distinct ...

Seventh grade students at the East Feliciana STEAM Academy acclimated new chickens to the chicken coop while eighth grade students began incubating eggs to study how those chickens came to be.

The classic question, “What came first, the egg or the chicken?” has intrigued philosophers and scientists for centuries. A ...