Which came first chicken or turkey?

Chickens were probably first domesticated around 8,000 years ago, from red junglefowl. Wild turkeys are first described in fossils dating to about 23 million years ago. They were first domesticated 4500 BCE by the Mayans.

Did chickens evolve from turkeys?

Are turkeys related to chickens? By about 11 million years ago, turkeys had evolved to be different from pheasants. Turkeys are related to chickens, but wild chickens lived mainly in East Asia, while wild turkeys lived in North America and Central America.

What came first the chicken or the egg scientific answer?

Eggs certainly came before chickens, but chicken eggs did not—you can’t have one without the other. However, if we absolutely had to pick a side, based on the evolutionary evidence, we’re on Team Egg.

Is Turkey related to chicken?

Turkeys and chicken share a similar taxonomy, and are the same up until the subfamily category. However, it is a part of the Phasianinae subfamily, the Gallus genus, and the subspecies pf Gallus gallus domesticus. This is the species commonly known as the domesticated chicken.

Where did turkeys first come from?

the Americas
Where do turkeys come from? They’re native to the Americas. They got the name because when Europeans first came across them they incorrectly thought they were a form of African guinea fowl which, because they were imported into Europe from Turkey, were commonly known as turkey fowl.

Is turkey a pheasant?

The type species is the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo). Turkeys are classed in the family Phasianidae (pheasants, partridges, francolins, junglefowl, grouse, and relatives thereof) in the taxonomic order Galliformes.

How was the first chicken made?

The video calls it a proto-chicken. So proto-hen laid an egg, and proto-rooster fertilized it. So in a nutshell (or an eggshell, if you like), two birds that weren’t really chickens created a chicken egg, and hence, we have an answer: The egg came first, and then it hatched a chicken.