What is the origin of the chicken?

Question

What is the origin of the chicken?

Answer 1

KFC

Answer 2

Birds in general evolved from "bird hipped dinosaurs" such as Brachiosaurus (which is weird when you think about it, because modern birds look a lot more like the velociraptor, for example, which is a "lizard-hipped dinosaur). The first "bird" is generally accepted to be the archyopterix...basically looked like a cross between a lizard and a bird...sort of like a very small peacock. with long legs and a skinny scaly body.

Over time, birds evolved to fill many niches, some waded in the water to catch fish, others because hunters, and others pecked at seeds on the ground. Slowly, different species began to evolve. Those that pecked at seeds on the ground, such as grouse, were easy for early people to catch and eat, and their eggs were easy to find. As people began to settle and build houses, they started to farm and raise animals. They captured wild fowl and bred them to enhance certain traits they liked, such as size and "broodiness" (meaning the amount of eggs they lay). Modern chickens likely evolved from Red Junglefowl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Junglef...  found in southeast Asia or India. As humans selectively bred them, they have created literally hundreds of different species, all known for some distinctive trait or another.

If someone asks you which came first, the chicken or the egg, you could say the egg, because dinosaurs and other reptiles laid eggs long before the first bird (or chicken) appeared on the planet.

Answer 3

the egg

Answer 4

dinosaurs

Answer 5

The ancestors of chickens, and other birds, are the bipedal dinosaurs.