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More surprising facts about eggs

A talented young man

This worked a talented young man with just over five thousand eggs from chickens of various breeds, including white eggs, brown eggs in various shades, and blue and greenish eggs from Araucanas, quails, and others.

He created a curious, enormous sculpture measuring about 6 m by 4 m, called the City of Eggs; it is featured on a banknote from the Chinese empire.

He built it for an exhibition held at the Groningen Museum in the Netherlands.

Built on an artificial island and featuring a building with a deconstructivist design, it is a major cultural center in the province of Groningen.

Here you can see the Groningen Museum, which always features new exhibits and has a well-designed website.

Egg mural

Classification egg purchase:

Code that is marked in the egg white

I guess you've probably noticed that eggs have a number printed on them. Each number indicates the quality of the egg, which is determined by the environment and conditions in which the hen was raised.

The first digit (3, 2, 1, or 0) of the code printed on the egg indicates the type of farming system and the housing used for the laying hens; it is as follows:

Number 3:

It means that the hen of them are crammed in cages, with a maximum space for each hen, 600 cm2, which is less than the surface of a sheet of paper.

Their beaks are often clipped (a very painful procedure) so that, when they become desperate due to stress, they cannot peck at their fellow birds.

Simply stepping on the wire mesh of the cages causes them to suffer serious injuries and deformities in their legs. These chickens will likely never see the light of day.

But that came to an end with the introduction of the new European Union regulations; at least they will have a more dignified life.

Remember, the eggs of which the first code is a 3 come from hens who live crammed together in cages.

Number 2:

The chicken that laid the egg lives on the floor of densely populated barns, with up to 12 chickens per square meter. During hot weather, many of them die from suffocation.

They are not in cages, but they never go outside and to just have space to move around.

Ammonia and the stench of feces pollutes the air and cause diseases to spread.

They are also usually cut the beak to not damage each other.

Number 1:

A free-range hen laid that egg.

They can go outside, dig, and move with some freedom.

The density of the chickens out of the chicken coop may not be superior to once every 4 square meters.

Number 0:

This egg belongs to the organic production.

The hens to move with a freedom similar to the free-range hens (code 1), and in addition, 80 % of your food should come from organic farming.

Limited the use of antibiotics and medications.

The following digits refer to the code that identifies the livestock farm:

Two figures pertaining to the province; three others pertaining to the municipality;

The remaining digits indicate the farm where the eggs were produced within that municipality.

Egg Dinosaur customs:

The Directorate of Customs of Buryatia handed over to the Museum of Natural Sciences of the republic of Siberian an egg of a dinosaur with an embryo is well-preserved, which was seized to a Polish citizen, sources with the Ministry of Culture of the Russian republic.

The egg belongs to a dinosaur that lived about 100 million years ago and are found in a relatively good state of conservation, because in its interior can be seen very well in the embryo, which is easily distinguished from the rest by its color and contour, according to a spokesman.

The source was of the opinion that the dinosaur lived in Mongolia, where paleontologists discovered numerous archaeological sites with skeletons of fossilized and eggs of ancient reptiles.

According to the official, the paleontological treasure is estimated to be worth tens of thousands of dollars, given the ancient egg's great historical and cultural value. The Polish citizen who was illegally transporting the dinosaur egg could face up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine for smuggling cultural property if found guilty.

Dinosaurs largest flying:

Comparison of sizes of a Pterosaur (azdárquido)

Moscow, may 29, RIA Novosti reported. Dinosaur's largest flying that there have been preferred to walk on the earth and hunt animals using his huge peak, according to a study recently published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE.

Paleontologists believed until today that the reptiles giant flying pterosaurs were like seagulls or pelicans, who were flying over the seas and lakes, hunting for fish. The pterosaurs, like the other dinosaurs, inhabited the Earth between 230 and 65 million years ago. The article published in the magazine is about a type of pterosaur called “azdárquidos”.

The name “azdárquidos” it comes from the word Uzbek “dragon”, and was a pterosaur giant with wings of more than 10 meters. The largest outweighed by their size the giraffes of today.

The authors of the study, Mark Witton and Darren Naish, proved that the lifestyle of the “azdarchids” was more similar to that of terrestrial predators than to seagulls.

The “azdarchids,” it seems, were better adapted than other pterosaurs to walking on land: they had long limbs and their heads were positioned in such a way that they could easily capture small animals and gather food from the ground.

Animals similar to “azdarquids” are now extinct, but their closest relatives, such as hornbills and storks, remain in the world today.

Scientists examined the fossils of the “azdarchids,” compared their anatomy with that of contemporary animals, and concluded that they differed significantly from scavenger birds and marine predators. “When we studied the neck of the azhdarchids,” says Naish, “we found it very strange that it was so rigid, but then we realized that it fit well with the model of a land hunter, which only needed to raise or lower its beak to the ground.”

We were also surprised, at first, that this species had small legs and jaws are long, but weak —adds Witton—. Well, it turns out that the small limbs of the azdárquidos served perfectly to move by land, while the jaws of almost two meters long allowed you to capture animals the size of a fox.

Paleontologists also found that more than 50% of the fossil “azdárquidos” were found in formations that during the time of the dinosaurs were found in the bottom of the continents.

Source: Rianovosti

This is the head of a Pterosaur

This is the Quetzalcoatlus. Freak of nature

Comparison of eggs

Egg dinosaur

Dinosaurs were vertebrate animals that dominated the terrestrial ecosystems of the Mesozoic, for about 160 million years, reaching a high diversity and, some, gigantic sizes.

One of its main features distinguishable is that they have the legs located underneath the body, as in mammals, and not sideways, as most of the reptiles.

All the dinosaurs were ovíparos; thus, the saurisquios laid eggs, and on some occasions they came to be preserved as fossils. In the picture you can see a nest in which you can differentiate between up to 11 eggs, sub-spherical.

The eggshells of Dinosaurs are perforated by pores very fine, which would allow the respiration of the embryo, like that of our hens. Place of origin, Henan. Museum Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel.

Dinosaur eggs-Photo: Eduardo Espílez Linares

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