1,700 year old egg never broke(atlasobscura.com) |
1,700 year old egg never broke(atlasobscura.com) |
Egg shells are more organic than you expect.
This is why you use stuff like waterglass https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_silicate to seal them.
I expect them to be completely organic. What else would they be?
i admit i read ops comment and was confused for a second until it clicked. they're mostly calcium carbonate
Regardless of getting funding, I don't see why our level of technology is not adequate to study an egg.
> “Researchers are planning to carefully extract the liquid to better study it,” stated Edward Biddulph, Senior Project Manager, who oversaw the site excavation. “It’s a controlled process similar to egg blowing, where a tiny hole is made in its shell after creating a 3D model.”
how much DNA is in an egg, isn't it just a single cell with a single nucleus? and if unfertilized is haploid?