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They are also single frigging cells. Yet, they have nothing on the largest unicellular organisms, size-wise.
That green look so green you could probably use the egg as a green screen
Therefore an eggscreen
extant
omelette
Hmmm...
First thought
Fun fact, ostrich eggs are nearing The largest land eggs can physically get, so even the dinosaurs didn't have much bigger eggs.
What's the limiting factor?
If I had to guess it'd be the ability for oxygen to diffuse through the shell and reach the embryo?
I got curious and your assumption is correct for one of the limiting factors.
Here is what I found:
Appreciate the share, that's awesome info
I never even considered that but it makes total sense. Thanks for the great post.
No problem. I get curious myself so figure it nice to share with people that don’t tell me they’re not interested in useless facts.
Didn't think I would find egg facts so interesting... Cool!
That’s eggcellent and I’m eggstatic that you enjoyed. Come back next Easter for more egg facts.
Here is what I found:
Any info on why both are GREEN? That's unexpected. Camouflage, maybe?
I am not an eggspert but after a quick search it seems many bird eggs are green in colour due to a pigment called biliverdin.
Interestingly verde is green in Spanish.
A lot of biological and other scientific terms are actually Latin or some mix of it. Bili means "Bile". Sources say "verd" in this case comes from French verd an old way to say green (Modern: vert/verte), but in any case the French words still derive from Latin viridis.
Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, and a few other minor languages are all descendants of Latin collectively called the Romance Languages. Speakers of one can often understand a lot of any other of the languages or Latin. Not completely mind you, but enough to get some meaning. Spanish speakers can understand a lot of written Portuguese (but not so much spoken due to pronunciation differences), Italian and Spanish speakers can almost have a conversation spoken or written. Portuguese/Italian/Spanish speakers will have a harder time with French though, they will recognize many written words but not enough to really call it totally understandable, and almost nothing spoken. Etc, etc.
Last 3 points millions of years ago the planet was much warmer with a lot more oxygen so for dinosaurs they would be moot.
Even with it being much warmer I believe it would still be difficult to keep at a uniform temperature.
Maybe it wasn't as difficult as we think?
Maybe nothing is 🤯
Why is that?
Here is what I found:
My 30 year old ostrich egg.
That's one hell of a gestation period.
I'm no Ostrich expert, but I think that egg is defective if it has yet to hatch in 30 years.
You should get a refund
I didn't know ostriches lived that long.
I didn't even know she was sick
The bright one has a natural QR code
Collecting the cassowary eggs more often results in death
Hands off my eggs.
Lego my egg-o
Or what, you'll cuddle me?
Yes, with my snuggle-talons. It’s a once in a lifetime experience.
Oh. I thought we were gonna make more eggs
Wait till you see the Kiwi egg
These ones must be hard-boiled.
Used to be my favorite t-shirt...
Who shaves a kiwi fruit?
Bruh…
I too don't know my left from right but the dark green is an emu egg
Turns out you are right! I was just copying the caption, but I’ll fix it.
Someone gave me an emu egg years ago, and I proudly displayed it for a long time. Then I got cats, and realized quickly that I should put it away.