This week, we’re cracking the science of eggs wide open!
Eggs have tons of different sizes, textures, and protective shells, from giant ostrich eggs to squishy fish egg clusters. But, scientifically, they all boil down to the same thing: an egg is just a reproductive cell that can be fertilized by a sperm to make an embryo. This week, we’re cracking the science of eggs wide open!
[Truth or Fail]
Brown trouts:
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150214-fake-orgasms-and-other-sex-lies
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347200915859?via%3Dihub
Octopuses:
https://www.mbari.org/deep-sea-octopus-broods-eggs-for-over-four-years-longer-than-any-known-animal/
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0103437
Trilobites:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170124124905.htm
[Fact Off]
Stick insect eggs:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/ku-tsi052318.php
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/10/stick-insects-lure-ants-fatty-knobs
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/05/science/stick-insects-eggs-birds.html
Humsters:
http://www.stillhq.com/pdfdb/000360/data.pdf
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/mrd.1120230307
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4471-3310-0_5
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1725451
[Ask the Science Couch]
Egg shape:
https://galapagosconservation.org.uk/whale-shark-reproduction/
https://books.google.com/books?id=zg1mDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT158&lpg=PT158
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6344/1249
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160304-one-animal-has-more-babies-than-any-other