It was the development of the amniotic egg, which prevents the developing embryo from drying out, that enabled the reptiles to reproduce on land and which led to their dominance in the period that followed.

His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it a little on one side.

There was an egg case inside the skull that had been laid by a tropical cockroach that could not possibly be found in Britain.

* Edwina Currie resigns as a junior Health minister for incorrectly claiming that millions of British eggs were infected with salmonella, stating that " most of egg production " was infected ( 1988 )

Dolly was born on 5 July 1996 to three mothers ( one provided the egg, another the DNA and a third carried the cloned embryo to term ).

She was created using the technique of somatic cell nuclear transfer, where the cell nucleus from an adult cell is transferred into an unfertilised oocyte ( developing egg cell ) that has had its nucleus removed.

This was first done for lysozyme, an enzyme found in tears, saliva and egg whites that digests the coating of some bacteria ; the structure was solved by a group led by David Chilton Phillips and published in 1965.

While the origin of Easter eggs can be explained in the symbolic terms described above, a sacred tradition among followers of Eastern Christianity says that Mary Magdalene was bringing cooked eggs to share with the other women at the tomb of Jesus, and the eggs in her basket miraculously turned brilliant red when she saw the risen Christ. The egg represents the boulder of the tomb of Jesus.

There are also parallels ( though no direct connection ) between the easter egg tradition and the celebration of Passover in Judaism, notable because in Christian tradition, Christ was celebrating Passover with his disciples on the evening before Good Friday.

The model of an egg was often used by Chinese astronomers like Zhang Heng ( 78-139 AD ) to describe the heavens as spherical:

The egg reference, however, was rather meant to clarify the relative position of the flat earth to the heavens:

Realizing the freighter was not fast enough with the egg attached, he runs down to the cables holding it.

The egg was white with variable brown streaking.

Female Great Auks would lay only one egg each year, between late May and early June, although they could lay a replacement egg if the first one was lost.

A single egg was laid on bare ground up to from shore.

The egg was ovate and elongate in shape, and averaged in length and across at the widest point.

The last pair, found incubating an egg, was killed there on 3 July 1844, on request from a merchant who wanted specimens, with Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson strangling the adults and Ketill Ketilsson smashing the egg with his boot.

An opposing school of thought, the ovists, believed that the future human was in the egg, and that sperm merely stimulated the growth of the egg.

For example, one popular Easter egg was in the Enchanter game, which involved collecting magic spells to use in accomplishing the quest.

They removed the object for closer inspection, joking that it was a dinosaur egg.

) The fruit is sweet, yellowish, and roughly the size of a chicken's egg ; it enjoys some popularity as a native plant with edible fruit and few pests.

Alheira, a yellowish sausage from Trás-os-Montes, served with fried potatoes and a fried egg, has an interesting story.

The fleshy fruit, also referred to as a maypop, is an oval yellowish berry about the size of a hen egg ; it is green at first, but then becomes orange as it matures.

Lumpiyang sariwa, or fresh spring rolls in English, consist of minced ubod ( heart of palm ), flaked chicken, crushed peanuts, and jicamas as an extender in a double wrapping of lettuce leaf and a yellowish egg crepe.

Non-microbial exogenous ( non-self ) antigens can include pollen, egg white, and proteins from transplanted tissues and organs or on the surface of transfused blood cells.

The formation of a relatively rigid but flexible matrix from egg white provides an important component in baking cakes, and also underpins many desserts based on meringue.

In tempera, the pigments are bound in an albuminous medium such as egg yolk or egg white diluted in water.

To make the parchment smooth and white, thin pastes ( starchgrain or staunchgrain ) of lime, flour, egg whites and milk were rubbed into the skins.

Hence, early studies focused on proteins that could be purified in large quantities, e. g., those of blood, egg white, various toxins, and digestive / metabolic enzymes obtained from slaughterhouses.

The pigment was often made from ground semiprecious stones such as lapis lazuli and the binder made from either gum arabic or egg white.

Within this category various optional ingredients may also be used within specified ranges, including egg white, frozen egg white or dried egg white alone or in any combination ; disodium phosphate ; onions, celery, garlic or bay leaf, alone or in any combination ; salt ; gum gluten ; and concentrated glyceryl monostearate.

A single, white, elongated egg was laid per nesting.

The white of the egg and the membrane of the yolk are discarded ( the membrane of the yolk is dangled over a receptacle and punctured to drain off the liquid inside ).

One recipe calls for vinegar ( 1: 1 proportion to egg yolk by volume ); other recipes suggest white wine ( 1 part yolk, 2 parts wine ).

Different preparations use the egg white or the whole egg for different effect.

The popular Minesweeper game under older versions of Microsoft Windows had a cheat mode triggered by entering the comment < tt > xyzzy < tt >, then pressing the key sequence shift and then enter, which turned a single pixel in the top-left corner of the entire screen into a small black or white dot depending on whether or not the mouse pointer is over a mine .< ref > This easter egg was present in all Windows versions through Windows XP Service Pack 2, but under Windows 95, 98 and NT 4. 0 the pixel was visible only if the standard Explorer desktop was not running.

Chicken egg ( biology ) | eggs vary in color depending on the hen, typically ranging from bright white to shades of brown and even blue, green, and recently reported purple ( found in South Asia ) ( Araucana varieties ).

The light points to a small opening in the cave, where they come upon the giant egg.

Hence, in this light, both the chicken and the structure of its egg evolved simultaneously from birds that, while not of the same exact species, gradually became more and more like present-day chickens over time.

In this light the argument is settled and the egg had to have come first.

According to one report, Louis ordered Pitau to " make him a piece to remember ", and Pitau took two years on the piece, resulting in a " triangular-shaped 69-carat gem the size of a pigeon's egg that took the breath away as it snared the light, reflecting it back in bluish-grey rays.

The egg shells are of various shades of light or bluish grey with irregular, dark brown spots or greyish-brown splotches.

It is " light and slightly puffy, more or less fine, according to the proportion of butter and eggs " It has a dark, golden, and flaky crust, frequently accentuated by an egg wash applied after proofing.

In the 1970 science fiction novel Tau Zero by Poul Anderson, a starship forced to travel very close to the speed of light by an engine malfunction survives traversing our universe collapsing via a big crunch into a cosmic egg and re-exploding in a new big bang.

40 Eridani ( also known as Omicron < sup > 2 </ sup > Eridani, or Keid, from the Arabic word qayd, ( egg ) shells ) is a triple star system less than 16. 5 light years away from Earth.

A boy came out of the egg, and when bathed, his body radiated light and birds and beasts danced.

The egg, cream and syrup were shaken in a cocktail shaker until light and frothy, then poured into a glass where the soda water was added.

Togepi is a small, light yellow Pokémon with a round body that is still encased in its egg shell.

The nougat chocolate center is made by whipping egg whites until they are light and frothy.

In the early 20th century, many fountains expanded their menus and became lunch counters, serving light meals as well as ice cream sodas, egg creams, sundaes, and such.

The single brown-mottled, light tan egg is incubated entirely by the female, leaving the polygamous male free to spend much of his time advertising with his distinctive songs.

The " B type " heads are painted light " duck egg " blue ( early cars ) to light green ( later cars ) in the 2. 4 and 3. 4-litre models and metallic dark blue in 3. 8-litre models.

* Light duck egg blue and later light green =

A quenelle () is a mixture of creamed fish, chicken, or meat, sometimes combined with breadcrumbs, with a light egg binding.

The raw witchetty grub tastes like almonds and when cooked the skin becomes crisp like roast chicken while the inside becomes light yellow, like a fried egg.

* Candling, method of observing the growth of an embryo inside an egg, using a bright light source

The method uses a bright light source behind the egg to show details through the shell, and is so called because the original sources of light used were candles.

The technique of using light to examine eggs is used in the egg industry to assess the quality of edible eggs.

The addition of tea leaves, coffee grinds, or onion skins to the water dyes the shell purple and the white a light brown, giving the egg a smooth creamy texture.