5 hours Ago By Jasper King
It is the age old question that has baffled everybody – what came first the chicken or the egg? Well scientists believe they have finally cracked the age old mystery and it is the egg. Researchers from Geneva University believe the mechanisms to create an egg existed way before the existence of the chicken. They found that 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 one billion years, well before the appearance of the first animals 300 million years ago. A team observed that this species forms multicellular structures that bear striking similarities to animal embryos. These observations suggest that the genetic programs responsible for embryonic development were already present before the emergence of animal life, or that C.
perkinsii evolved independently to develop similar processes. More Trending Google issues 'severe' Android alert - how to check if your device is affected The Sun just unleashed a powerful solar flare that triggered radio blackouts on Earth NASA's new £15,000,000 spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly through space 'My best friend made deepfaked porn of me- now I'm campaigning to make it illegal' Nature therefore possesses the genetic tools to ‘create eggs’ over a billion years ago long before it ‘invented chickens’ 300 million years ago. This news is exciting for scientists like Marine Olivetta, from the Swiss university’s biochemistry department.
She told Nature Journal: ‘It’s fascinating, a species discovered so recently allows us to go back in time a billion years.’ Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at [email protected].
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