Monday, February 20, 2017

This egg inside another egg is a perfect YouTube specimen

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Which came first: the chicken, the egg or the second egg?

Okay, we don't know, but we do know this: amid all the late-night clips and VEVO spam, there occasionally emerges a popular YouTube video that is just weird and cool.

Behold: the stunning 2017 film "Egg Inside an Egg."

The clip goes pretty much how you'd expect. A mysteriously large egg is opened to find — surprise! — another, smaller egg inside. When they crack open the second egg, there's just a yolk, although it is slightly paler than most yolks.

This egg-inside-egg phenomenon is called a counter-peristalsis contraction. Basically, it's when an egg that has already passed through the hen's oviduct gets sucked back up before it can finish developing, allowing another egg to develop around it.  Read more...

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