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A chicken egg came before the chicken because it is the same animal and the egg stage is earlier than the adult stage.
TIL the first chicken egg wasn't laid by a chicken
if you want something crazier, look into ring species. where different species of animals have all their in-between species still alive and mate with each other, but the ones at the extremes cant mate with each other
Yeah one of my favorite ones is how donkeys and horses can mate for mules but some of those mules will be able to make with either eachother or one of the two parent species but not both, but most mules are infertile.