Two Ducks from One Egg
The Cornish Duck Company checks its eggs for viable embryos. They noticed one egg had two embryos, and were prepared with a camera when it hatched.
Local vet Barrie Fleming, who advised the farm’s owners, Roger Olver and Tanya Dalton, on the hatching, said they had “every reason to be excited by the birth” as it was a very rare occurrence.
The BBC has the video. Link -via Arbroath
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Tea Eggs (Chinese Marbled Eggs)
These visually striking eggs are produced by hard-boiling an egg, cracking the shell, and then steeping the egg in a flavored tea or broth. The batik-like marbling effect is more prominent when teas with high levels of tannin are used; the duration of the second boiling will influence both the color of the marbling and the degree to which the tea or broth flavor penetrates the egg.
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Egg Within an Egg
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This video by YouTube user Elman511 shows a chicken egg that contains another chicken egg — shell and all — inside. I suspected this was a hoax until I read about the phenomenon of ovum in ovo:
Douglas Russell, speaking about the phenomenon in the New Scientist, said: “As the curator of the British Natural History Museum egg collection, I’ve come across quite a few examples of egg oddities.
“Double eggs (as opposed to multiple-yolked eggs) are less common than some other zoological anomalies and consequently the ovum in ovo has attracted specific scholarly attention for hundreds of years.
“Several theories have been proposed for the origin of double eggs.
“The most likely suggests that the normal rhythmic muscular action, or peristalsis, that moves a developing egg down the oviduct malfunctions in some way.”
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17 Wacky Kitchen Gadgets
GatgetHER has pictures of and links to seventeen bizarre and/or clever kitchen gadgets, such as this nose-shaped egg separator. The others gadgets include a device that turns a hard-boiled egg into a cube, one that shears the kernels off of a corn cob, and an espresso machine that looks like a medieval torture implement.
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You Auto Lay an Egg
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You Auto Lay an Egg (AKA It’s a Bird) is a 1930 short film by cartoonist Charley Bowers and directed by Harold L. Muller in which a freaky, talking, stop-motion bird lays an egg that hatches into a (real) full-size car.
It looks like they accomplished the trick by sawing the car into tiny bits frame by frame and then running the film backwards, but the results are truly astonishing however they were achieved (Remember, this is before the age of CGI). Set some time aside, because you’re probably going to watch this clip three time in a row.
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Darwin's Egg Found
If you’ve ever damaged your stuff because you packed it wrong, take heart: even Charles Darwin made the same error.
When a volunteer was cataloging a collection at University of Cambridge’s Zoology Museum, she ran across a curious egg with writings on it:
… Lowe and Curator of Ornithology Dr Mike Brooke, traced the specimen’s origin in the notebook of Professor Alfred Newton, a friend of Darwin’s and Professor of Zoology in the latter 19th Century.
Prof Newton had written: "One egg, received through Frank Darwin, having been sent to me by his father who said he got it at Maldonado (Uruguay) and that it belonged to the Common Tinamou of those parts.
"The great man put it into too small a box and hence its unhappy state."
Previously on Neatorama: 10 Fun Facts About Charles Darwin
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Timeless Household Wisdom
There’s a line in one of the Robocop movies, "Don’t forget what you already know," or something like that. I may be remembering that wrong BUT check out these very useful kitchen tips from the pages of history, as compiled by Tipnut. For example:
To keep cheese from getting hard, cut off enough for immediate use and spread the remaining portion with a thin film of butter or margarine. Put it in a cool place. This keeps out the air and prevents the cheese from drying out.
Sprinkle pantry shelves, window sills, and door sills with a mixture of red pepper and sage to rid them of ants.
A smooth shiny egg shell is a sign of old age. Fresh eggs have a chalky rough shell
To make peeling hard-cooked eggs easier, butter your thumbs.
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Can't Trust Those Gay Penguins ...
Here’s why you can never trust gay penguins …
Keepers have segregated the couple after they caught them trying to trick straight birds into parting with their offspring by placing round stones at their feet and then running off with an egg.
Experts at the Polarland Park in Harbin, north east China, say that despite being gay the three year old male birds are still driven by an urge to be dads.
Previously on Neatorama: Gay Penguins Say No Thanks to Females
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