What came first, the spider or the egg?

[kc261]

The egg came first... with a randomly mutated spider ball python inside it.

Unless of course you believe that the kind of egg is determined by what laid it instead of what it has inside it. After all, I think most of us would agree that the eggs we typically eat are chicken eggs, but since we usually eat ones that aren't fertile, that means the name comes from the hen, not the non-existent chick.

So that means the spider came first, hatched out of a normal egg.

Now let's see if I can make your head hurt. If the first spider was a male, then even the second generation of spiders hatched out of normal eggs, cuz the male mated with normal females, who obviously lay normal eggs.