The Chicken or the Egg? Which Came First?

So the age old question all kids have been asked growing up.....Which came first the chicken or the egg? The answer is slightly complicated but we do know this: That the egg came before the chicken. Not necessarily the chicken egg, but definitely the egg. Interpreted literally, the answer to the riddle is clear. Dinosaurs were forming birdlike nests and laying eggs long before birds (including chickens) ever evolved.