This animal was a wild red jungle fowl, which looks like this, very similar to a chicken.
But the difference is that it lived in the jungles of Southeast Asia. When humans started farming, it started living near the farms because of the grains. And around this time, humans started domesticating it. Because of this domestication, it evolved through thousands of years, and it evolved into today’s chicken.
This species of jungle fowl is still alive. You can still find it in the jungles of Southeast Asia. But if you compare it to a common chicken, you can see some differences. The scientific name for this jungle fowl species is Gallus Gallus. And the scientific name for a common chicken is Gallus Gallus Domesticus.
So one thing is clear here that eggs are 300 million years old and chicken is 3,500 years old. So eggs evolved much earlier than chicken. But you will say that the 300 million years old eggs were not laid by a chicken. So the next question here is, did chicken come first or chicken’s eggs?
