EGGSPERIMENT!

Your Weekly Round-Up of Eggs in Science, with Dr Ursula Bear

Good point WE ALL know that eggs are egg-shaped, but have we ever stopped to ask why? Scientists at Bristol University have received £2.5million in funding to answer just that question. “For thousands of years, we have simply accepted that eggs are the shape they are and that’s that,” said project leader Dr Stanley Crumbs. “But we want to investigate why they are egg-shaped. And why do they have one end more pointy than the other, rather than being symmetrical ovoids?” Initial findings of the research indicate that the answers to these fundamental questions may have something to do with the evolution of the chicken. “At some point in time, a chicken may have developed a mutation which made it produce pointy-ended eggs rather than round ones,” said Dr Crumbs.…

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Viz (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2024

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